SymbianOne
Saturday, 28 February 2004
If you have ever been frustrated by a performance issue in your code you will
know the benefit of being able to perform profiling. Ever wondered how to do it
for your Symbian OS C++ code? This Forum Nokia document shows you how with a relatively
inexpensive third party tool.Series 60 Developer Platform: Profiling C++ Applications provides a detailed description of how to use the GlowCode profiling tool to
examine the performance of an application running in the Series 60 emulator. Illustrated
with a modified version of the HelloWorld application which draws a random collection
of triangles to the screen it shows how GlowCode can help identify a performance
issue with the application.
Unfortunately using tools like GlowCode in conjunction with the PC based emulator
is not ideal, as the emulator is not designed to emulate real device performance,
only real device functionality, the document recognizes this and provides some
hints on the pitfalls of this method of profiling.
Overall this document gives a good practical guide to a simple, inexpensive way
of resolving performance issues with Series_60_DP_Profiling_Cpp_V1_0_en.pdf 474 Kb
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