What's your favorite profiling tool (for C++)

c++ performance profiling
OysterD picture OysterD · Aug 25, 2008 · Viewed 67.9k times · Source

So far, I've only used Rational Quantify. I've heard great things about Intel's VTune, but have never tried it!

Edit: I'm mostly looking for software that will instrument the code, as I guess that's about the only way to get very fine results.

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What are some good profilers for native C++ on Windows?

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Al. picture Al. · Aug 25, 2008

For linux development (although some of these tools might work on other platforms). These are the two big names I know of, there's plenty of other smaller ones that haven't seen active development in a while.

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