[sldev] Profiling and optimization

[Soft Linden]

Blakar, did you end up going with AMD CodeAnalyst? Do you have any
approach to creating a reproducible workload for benchmarking viewer
changes?

I know optimization's kind of a sexy subject, but it's also easy to
misinterpret the tools and focus on the wrong areas without a good
profiling approach. It looks like you're off to a good start and maybe
trending toward bigger things... can you think of anything you've
found so far that could be added to Douglas' profiling guide?

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Profiling_and_Optimization


On 6/23/07, Dirk Moerenhout <blakar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't used it as I don't plan to pay for a profiler. I'm recently
> downloaded AMD's CodeAnalyst as it's the only free alternative for
> windows I know off. It works pretty well but I haven't managed to get
> the call stack sampling to work which I'd like to have.
>
> It does properly show you function names and can do drilldown to code
> and such. I did have an issue getting it to work with the ForDownload
> pdb but I figured out that compiling only viewer.cpp with /ZI is
> enough to have it working again.
>
> Dirk aka Blakar Ogre
>
> On 6/23/07, Nicholaz Beresford <nicholaz at blueflash.cc> wrote:
> >
> > Did anyone try GlowCode on Windows?  I ordered
> > an Eval and tried it with their demo app, but
> > it doesn't seem to show any function calls
> > (just a thread list) for any of the SecondLife
> > builds (either debug, NoOpt or ForDownload).
> >
> >
> > Nick
> >
> >
> >
> > Second Life from the inside out:
> > http://nicholaz-beresford.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> > Douglas Soo wrote:
> > > After watching the chatter fly on this list, I thought that it might be
> > > worthwhile to write up a short summary of what we have found at Linden
> > > to be effective approaches to profiling and optimizing code.
> > >
> > > <https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Profiling_and_Optimization>
> > >
> > > It's pretty thing, but hopefully will be useful.
> > >
> > > - Doug
> > >
> > >
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