27-04-2014, 11:27 AM
(26-04-2014, 09:52 AM)damiant Wrote:(26-04-2014, 02:02 AM)Mello Tonin Wrote: There's always the 90-day trials on Microsoft's site (Visual Studio Downloads). You could copy your current project files to another computer or VM to see if the additional features are useful safely.Yeah its really cool, you set it up and it produces a report that shows you all the method calls that happen when you run it in debugger, and how much time they took. Its a good idea to profile your code (esp in perf critical products like games or servers) at least once in a while so you have some idea of what's really happening when your program is actually running. In big shops, profiling is also not done as often as it should be, but its a shortcut to trying to figure out how fast your code is through static analysis.
I didn't know that. That sounds extremely useful and is probably exactly what I need. I will give it a go after the next release, I have managed to optimize the game a lot since the last release, but I still know there are a lot of things that could be done better if I just had the time for it.