Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Devin_E_Ben-Hur From: Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Profiling for MS C ? Message-ID: <6237@cup.portal.com> Date: 4 Jun 88 19:50:31 GMT References: <1284@adec23.UUCP> <559@wsccs.UUCP> <687@creare.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 14 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3645 Gary Abbott asks about profiling MSC programs. There are quite a few commercial profilers available. I did a survey of them about 2 years ago and the best of the lot was pFinish from Pheonix software. All of the profilers get their symbolic information from the linker's MAP file. Some of them can also use the Pheonix PLINK format symbolic information which is appended to the .EXE file. I've also seen some public domain profilers but they're pretty rudimentary. Some of the tech-rags (DDJ, PJ, PC-Tech, etc.) have source code for programming the PC's clock chip to provide high ^published resolution timing.