have you looked at tracy : https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy ?
it seems to at par, if not better than the other offering.
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Frame profiler
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For C++ applications, nothing beats Tracy’s flame graphs in value per dollar. We are using it at Adobe with great effect. It can handle mutex lock contention, runtime values…
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Tracy Profiler
A real time, nanosecond resolution, remote telemetry, hybrid frame and sampling profiler for games and other applications.
Tracy supports profiling CPU (Direct support is provided for C, C++, Lua, Python and Fortran integration. At the same time, third-party bindings to many other languages exist on the internet, such as Rust, Zig, C#, OCaml, Odin, etc.), GPU (All major graphics/compute APIs: OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D 11/12, Metal, OpenCL, CUDA, WebGPU.), memory allocations, locks, context switches, automatically attribute screenshots to captured frames, and much more.
Documentation for usage and build process instructions
Releases containing the documentation (tracy.pdf) and compiled Windows x64 binaries (Tracy-<version>.7z) as assets
Changelog
Interactive demo
An Introduction to Tracy Profiler in C++ - Marcos Slomp - CppCon 2023
Introduction to Tracy Profiler v0.2
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.3
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.4
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.5
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.6
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.7
New features in Tracy Profiler v0.8
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8 sourcesThis reminds me that I was recently using tracy to profile a program and found their own list of valid grievances, altough it's a bit more GNOME inflicted: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/issues/505#issuecomment-136...
In KiCad and Wayland SupportTracy profiler new release 0.12.0
2 points · Open discussionI find the imgui UIs to be very high density (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and the gallery issues) See for example the tracy profiler: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy. It seems the game dev community has pretty powerful tools to understand and interrogate their work.
In Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?Look for tracing/profiling/binary analysis UIs:
- https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor...
- https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy
- https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex
3D modeling / CAD software:
- Blender/Rhino etc
- Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' (https://blog.landr.com/best-daw/)
Many examples on https://x.com/usgraphics/media only some software.
Not on the data side but can be useful just for contrast from todays software:
- https://www.zachtronics.com/wmp-skins/
- https://cari.institute/aesthetics
In Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?Tracy [1] is the first thing that comes to my mind, then RenderDoc [2].
After that Visual Studio while debugging. In general, I think graphical debuggers and profiling tools do a relatively good job of packing lots of information into many, small windows.
[1] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy
[2] https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc
In Ask HN: What are good high information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)Haven't worked with it, but based on initial look it's a quite different thing that stands closer to a frame-based profiler like Tracy (https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy).
As far as differences go:
Microprofile:
- frame-based
- needs a build system
- memory usage starts at 2 MB per thread
- runs 2 threads of its own
- provides system-specific info
- good support for GPU workloads
- provides live view
- seems like a good choice for gamedev / rendering
utl::profiler:
- no specific pipeline
- single include
- memory usage starts at approx. nothing and would likely stay in kilobytes
- doesn't run any additional threads
- fully portable, nothing platform specific whatsoever, just standard C++
- doesn't provide system-specific info, just pure timings
- seems like a good choice for small projects or embedded (since
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I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but I found https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy to work rather well. There is an integration for the tracing crate that can get you very far: https://lib.rs/crates/tracing-tracy. If you're just looking for a very high level report then this might be a bit too much detail.
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