What's the best free C++ profiler for Windows? [closed]

Answer 1

CodeXL has now superseded the End Of Line'd AMD Code Analyst and both are free, but not as advanced as VTune.

There's also Sleepy, which is very simple, but does the job in many cases.

Note: All three of the tools above are unmaintained since several years.

Answer 2

I've used "TrueTime - part of Compuware's DevPartner suite for years. There's a [free version](you could try Compuware DevPartner Performance Analysis Community Edition.) available.

Answer 3

Proffy is quite cool: http://pauldoo.com/proffy/

Disclaimer: I wrote this.

Answer 4

I use VSPerfMon which is the StandAlone Visual Studio Profiler. I wrote a GUI tool to help me run it and look at the results.

http://code.google.com/p/vsptree/

Answer 5

Please try my profiler, called cRunWatch. It is just two files, so it is easy to integrate with your projects, and requires adding exactly one line to instrument a piece of code.

http://ravenspoint.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/timing/

Requires the Boost library.

Answer 6

I highly recommend Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) or XPERF

The command line xperf command line tool records Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) logs that can be analyzed using the GUI xperfview tool.

Using stacktrace command line arguement has proven to be an invaluable tool for my company as it profiles and troubleshoots bottlenecks. One of the most compelling things is that the WPT can be installed in any environment even on the venerable Windows XP.

On Windows 8 the Windows Performance Analyzer takes xperf to an even higher level.

The hard numbers and stats provided in ETW logs are unparalleled in detail except for visual studio profiler (2010/2012) which is also great but not free AFAIK.

If you have never used xperf...you do not know what you are missing