Unity Game Optimization - Third Edition

Profiler script control

The Profiler can be controlled in script code through the Profiler class. There are several useful methods in this class that we can explore within the Unity documentation, but the most important methods are the delimiter methods that activate and deactivate profiling at runtime. These can be accessed through the UnityEngine.Profiling.Profiler class through its BeginSample() and EndSample() methods.

Note that the delimiter methods, BeginSample() and EndSample(), are only compiled in development builds, and, as such, they will not be compiled or executed in release builds where Development Mode is unchecked. This is commonly known as non-operation, or no-op, code.

The BeginSample() method has an overload that allows ...