AsmProfiler

AsmProfiler is a 32-bit instrumenting and sampling profiler written by André Mussche. Its source, along with Windows exe, can be found at https://github.com/andremussche/asmprofiler. Although the latest version was released in 2016, it works well with the newest Delphi at the time of writing this book, 10.2 Tokyo.

The sampling and instrumenting profilers are used in a different way, so I'll cover them separately.

To use AsmProfiler you first have to unpack the release ZIP into some folder on your disk. That will create two subfolders—Sampling and Instrumenting. To start the sampling profiler, start AsmProfiling_Sampling from the Sampling folder and then click Start profiling.

AsmProfiler has two ways of starting a profiling session. ...

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