Unity Game Optimization - Third Edition

Best approaches to performance analysis

Good coding practices and project asset management often make finding the root cause of a performance issue relatively simple, at which point the only real problem is figuring out how to improve the code. For instance, if the method only processes a single gigantic for loop, then it will be a pretty safe assumption that the problem is either with how many iterations the loop is performing, whether or not the loop is causing cache misses by reading memory in a non-sequential fashion, how much work is done in each iteration, or how much work it takes to prepare for the next iteration.

Of course, whether we're working individually or in a group setting, a lot of our code is not always written in the cleanest ...