On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 21:19:12 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
You don't need any instrumentation for perf and can get similar output (even in real time). (Don't intend to start a profiler war, but recommend looking at perf before messings with DLLs and the like) (although perf is is Linux-only) I think the Windows version of AMD CodeAnalyst might have similar features, again without instrumentation, but never tried it (CodeAnalyst is gratis). Intel VTune definitely does, but it's not gratis.
Benchmarking and profiling are slightly different tasks. I've used AMD CodeAnalyst as well (although you need an AMD processor to use all of its features), but no profiler beats running one batch file and instantly getting a number to compare against.
