Tracy Profiler Integration

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On Monday, 3 August 2020 at 20:36:51 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> I am currently integrating the tracy profiler 
> (https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy)
> with dmd.
>
> Such that instead of the profiler in druntime, tracy can be 
> used for instrumented profiling.
>
>
> The current progress is here: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/compare/master...UplinkCoder:tracy?expand=1
>  there are still some teething problems, but I am confident 
> that it will be useful soon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefan


I agree with Webfreak on this. Tooling is very lacking in D and a 
profiler like tracy (along with its ecosystem of tools) is a very 
necessary addition for code optimization.

As a side note, one the most spoken about of browser dev tools is 
their JavaScript profiler.