SamplingProfiler 1.7.0 still hot from the compiler

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…).

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Saving results & merging

SamplingProfiler run results can be saved to .spr files (Sampling Profiler Results) and later reused for comparison purposes, or for merging, one of the less obvious features of the profiler.
You can merge results by right-clicking on a results tab and selecting… “Merge results”, oddly enough. After this, the samples will be aggregated across the runs you selected, hopefully providing more statistical accuracy.

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