Breaking changes in Visual C++ 2015

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 05:12:28 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 09:51:23PM +0000, deadalnix via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> [...]
>> >4. profiler
>> 
>> Same things, this is a standard tool nowaday for any language 
>> worth
>> considering. In fact, even if we had no specific support in D 
>> for it,
>> C/C++ tooling could probably do it for us to some extent.
> [...]
>
> I use dmd with gprof with not-bad results. It's not perfect, 
> but at
> least I can get some useful info out of it.
>
> The built-in dmd profiler is unfortunately unusable for me 
> because its
> function call counters wrap around far too early (IIRC they use 
> 16-bit
> counters or something like that), whereas the test cases I need 
> to
> optimize for are the long-running, steady state test cases in 
> which
> millions or billions of function calls are made.
>
> Will this ever be improved?
>
>
> T

have you tried oprofile? It's embarrassingly simple to use, 
especially compared to perf. oprofile used to be much worse though