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SamplingProfiler 1.7.0 still hot from the compiler

Eric — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:19:31 +0000

SamplingProfiler v1.7.0 is now available, you can get the zip and release details from its changelog page.

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

MapFileStats v1.2 out and other news

Eric — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:50:44 +0000

MapFileStats v1.2 is now available for download, it fixes reported issues and introduces a few minor improvements, such as using the ability to abort search paths scans and remembering MAP File and Search Paths options between executions. You can find the complete list in the changelog.

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.

SamplingProfiler 1.6.1 released

Eric — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:06:09 +0000

Still hot out of the D2009 linker is v1.6.1 of SamplingProfiler.
This is essentially a bugfix release which should solve the Win2k compatibility issue.

Changes since from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1:

Supports rough profiling when MAP file does not hold detailed information.
Fixed a transient case in which irrelevant samples could be collected.
Fixed a dll reference that caused issues on Win2k.
Minor UI fixes and changes.

You can grab it from its changelog page.

MapFileStats public release

Eric — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:56:29 +0000

MapFileStats is a simple free utility to obtain executable binary size statistics derived from a “.map” file.

Use it to know which units contribute the most to an executable’s size, which DFMs are the largest, which units you have dependencies on but barely use in your executable, or merely to know exactly what gets into your executable.

You can integrate it into the Delphi IDE via the Tools menu, see the MapFileStats page for more details or to the download page and see for yourself!