Call for beta testing!

[tyoma]

Guys,
You're on this list because you were/are at some point interested in MicroProfiler and left an issue or two here on github.
I have released a beta that has entirely rebuilt UI (particularly, the lists are now drawn by my code - except for parsing fonts, for which I use freetype2 library). Since there nobody else's helping me in developing MicroProfiler, I need your help in testing this release.
Should you decide to participate, the release is located here. Please, feel free open new issues here.
Have fun tackling it and Happy New Year!

Thanks a bunch!
Artem

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[jcelerier]

thanks!

@Lectem maybe interesting for you too ?

[Chaosmeister]

I'll take a look tomorrow. Thanks for posting!

[janhec]

I'll look into it asap. Thanks for your efforts!

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[Lectem]

I'm sorry to say this @jcelerier and be a bit blunt, but I'm not really a fan of anything based on auto-instrumentation. It can be useful to know what functions are called most but other than that it's just not great for profiling (especially when it prevents any inlining) and prefer manual instrumentation coupled with sampling.

Anyway a few remarks for @tyoma for the UI since I tried it anyway:
(screenshot to illustrate)

• Why does it automatically close when the program exits ? This means you can not profile command line programs easily
• It's not immediately clear at first that the top panel is the caller list, and the bottom one is the list of callees
• A tree view would be nice
• The layout changed when I clicked to sort by inclusive time
  
• It would be better to have median/percentiles displayed rather than average, but I suppose it would require to store the values, so maybe not that good of an idea.
• I couldnt resize the panels (the callees list is small)
• The pie chart looks great, but a function name should be displayed when hovered

On other issues:

• I'm getting negative time for some things: (edit: see Negative execution times #57)
• I paused my program, and while I was playing with the profiler window it closed itself after a few minutes / alt tabs? Are there logs ?

[tyoma]

Thank you @Lectem! This is very valuable!

• The log(s) is/are located in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\.MicroProfiler, please, attach it to this issue. Spontaneous closes is not something expected and must be fixed.
• What do you mean by 'layout changed'? What did it look like before?
• Median (ant not only) values will be there, once I implement profile history (it is to display them I needed custom lists first).

As a sidenote: I get what you're saying about inlining - it may reduces the amount of functions inlined, but not prevent it. You can check it out yourself here - I ran profiling of the same agge rendition code with and without inlining (in Release, all other optimizations and flags are the same). You can look at the spreadsheet or at the profiles attached (you can open them from the Extensions/MicroProfiler/Open...) agge-rendition-with-or-without-inlining.zip

[Lectem]

What do you mean by 'layout changed'? What did it look like before?

See the space between the pie chart and the first column

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Rest of the answer moved to #64

[tyoma]

moved to #64 (comment)

[Lectem]

Moved to #64 (comment)

[tyoma]

@Lectem Can you please move your comments on performance to this issue (#64), as they don't seem to be relevant?
Thanks!

[tyoma]

@Lectem I've published a version with some of the issues you mentioned earlier fixed. Here it is: https://github.com/tyoma/micro-profiler/releases/tag/v1.8.626.0
Meanwhile, I'm preparing my reply on #64.
Thank you!