My Question:
Performance tests are generally done after an application is integrated with various modules and ready for deploy.
Is there any way to identify performance bottlenecks during the development phase. Does code analysis throw any hints @ performance?
It all depends on rules that you run during code analysis but I don’t think that you can prevent performance bottlenecks just by CA.
From my expired it looks that performance problems are usually quite complicated and to find real problems you have to run performance tests.