As announced last week, the changes are a fix for a bug that could drastically affect the execution speed of the profiled application when relying on MAP files for debug information, if you were hit by this bug, things should be like night and day with this version (and hopefully I didn’t break anything else in the process…).

The other main addition is that of the real-time monitor, which with default parameters and when activated locally should be reachable at http://localhost:880/ (see the help for other details). The monitor is still at an early stage, and only provides real-time information, as time allows, it may grow to offer more profiling and debug features.The current monitor page is a rather basic html page that is fully refreshed periodically, which isn’t very pretty at the moment… an XML version of the real-time information is available at http://localhost:880/sampling.xml, if you come up with a pretty AJAX-based version before I do, feel free to contribute it

In other news v1.7 of SamplingProfiler should be ready “soon”. It fixes a bug that could drastically reduce the profiled application’s execution speed (when using MAP file information), and will introduce a “Real Time Monitor”, which allows to see what a profiled application is doing in real-time (unsurprisingly).
The monitor is actually a simple web server embedded into the profiler, so you can monitor an application that is run locally or on another machine. Real-time data will be accessible both as a bare-bones HTML page, or in XML form for the AJAX freaks out there.