1 Introduction

Read the Release Notes!

What's New in This Release

CodeWarrior and Its Documentation

What's in This Manual

Where to Go from Here

2 Getting Started

System Requirements

Installing Profiler

Background on Profiling Code

What Is a Profiler?

Types of Profilers

A Profiling Strategy

Profiling Code

3 Using Profiler

What It Does

How It Works

Profiling Made Easy

4 Viewing Results

What It Does

How It Works

MW Profiler Window

Window Views

Finding Performance Problems

5 Profiling Mac OS Code

Profiler Libraries and Interface Files

Profiling Special Cases

Profiling Code with #pragma Statements

Initializing Profiler with ProfilerInit()

Terminating Profiler with ProfilerDump()

Profiling Threads

Viewing Threads in MW Profiler

Profiling Shared Libraries

Profiling Code Resources

Profiling C++ Static Constructors

Profiling MacApp

Profiling Asynchronous Routines

Profiling Abnormally Terminated Functions

Using the PowerPC PEF Linker

Debugging Profiled Code

Profiler Limitations

6 Profiling in PowerPlant

Introduction to Profiling in PowerPlant

Profiling Strategy

Rules of Thumb

Profiling Class

StProfileSection

~StProfileSection

Profiling Your Code

Code Exercise for Profiling

Profiling a Single Routine

Profiling an Application

7 Troubleshooting

Profile Times Vary Between Runs

Problems while Profiling Inline Functions

Profiling Library Could not be Found

Profiler and Virtual Memory

Names are Garbled when Viewing a 68K Profile Dump

8 Profiler Reference

Compiler Directives

Testing for the Profiler

Memory Usage

Time and Timebases

Profiler Menu Reference

About MW Profiler

File Menu

Edit Menu

View Menu

Windows Menu

Profiler Function Reference

Profiler API

Index