One issue when trying to profile a “live” application is that you may be getting a lot of noise, resulting from a particular library or section of code being executed from multiple contexts.
You may also be after profiling only one particular case, and want some reproducibility between runs… in short: you want a finer grained control on when or for what the profiling will take place.
SamplingProfiler comes as a stand alone-application, but it’s also ready for integration in the IDE via the Tools menu. Go to the Tools menu configuration and add an entry for SamplingProfiler. Set the parameters field to $EXENAME. Voilà!
http://DelphiTools.info/ shall be the url for this page for the foreseeable future, the one you can bookmark!
When time allows, I’ll post my other Delphi-oriented tools here, hence the name of the site. For now I’ve just added a few links, I’ll be adding more and reworking the site pages as I get more familiar with WordPress.
…after having long been a ghost in the Borland attachments newsgroup, this is an attempt for a more permanent home for SamplingProfiler. Hopefully you’ll find news and download links here.
The current released version is 1.5.2 and available from Torry.ru.
A version 1.6.0 is happening, at this point it’s just a version compiled with D2009. If you are interested in testing it, leave comments here!