Re: Open source Profilers

On Tuesday 14 August 2007 15:32, Avinash Lakshman wrote:
> Hi
>
> Any good open-source profilers that you guys would recommend based on
> experience ? Basically I need  something that will tell me the time
> spent in each method call over a run.

I think NetBeans has something (again, if you use that IDE or are
willing to for the purposes of profiling).

Personally, being neither a NetBeans or Eclipse user, I found there was
nothing that gave acceptable precision, a low enough profiling overhead
and a decent interface in the free or open-source realm.

I ended up buying YourKit (<http://www.yourkit.com/>). It's quite good,
imposes a pretty modest overhead when profiling and is very flexible.

I waited for them to have one of their occassional special deals, which
is the only way I could justify the price (ordinarily more than IDEA
itself, e.g., which is the IDE I use). YourKit integrates with several
IDEs:

    Eclipse
    IntelliJ IDEA
    NetBeans
    JBuilder
    JDeveloper

As it turns out, YourKit is having one of ther $99 personal license
deals right now: <http://www.yourkit.com/purchase/index.jsp>. Check it
out (get a free evaluation license, i.e.) and if you like it, consider
buying while the deal is still in effect.


> Thanks
> Avinash


Randall Schulz

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