What techniques can you use to profile your code
Some of the platforms that I develop on, don't have profiling tools. I am looking for suggestions/techniques that you have personally used to help you identify hotspots, without the use of a profiler. The target language is C++. I am interested in what you have personally used. I've found the following quite useful: #ifdef PROFILING # define PROFILE_CALL(x) do{ \ const DWORD t1 = timeGetTime(); \ x; \ const DWORD t2 = timeGetTime(); \ std::cout << "Call to '" << #x << "' took " << (t2 - t1) << " ms.\n"; \ }while(false) #else # define PROFILE_CALL(x) x #endif Which can be used in the calling