How do you profile your apps under windows?

[Gary Willoughby]

On Friday, 9 August 2013 at 16:39:41 UTC, Alexandr Druzhinin 
wrote:
> -profile switch doesn't work for me (nothing happens), so I'm 
> curious how to profile?

I had the same problem on Linux where -profile didn't seem to 
produce anything. I had a program which ran an infinite loop 
running as a daemon. When compiled and run using -profile i'd let 
it run for a bit then kill it and nothing was produced. After 
much head scratching i implemented a timer in the program that 
only ran in debug mode and after the timer expired i raised an 
assert fail:

     assert(false);

This exited the program and produced the trace file which i could 
then examine. I guess killing the process also killed the 
profiler and so never gave me the report.