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Asked: May 18, 20262026-05-18T01:44:15+00:00 2026-05-18T01:44:15+00:00

Possible Duplicate: What's your favorite profiling tool (for C++) Are there any good tools

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What's your favorite profiling tool (for C++)

Are there any good tools to profile a source code which is mix of of C and C++. What are the pros and cons of any, and which ones have you used and would reccomend for usage. Please do not get me a list of tools from google. I can do that too, what i want is to leverage the personal experience of someone who has used these tools and knows the pros and cons about them.
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    2026-05-18T01:44:15+00:00Added an answer on May 18, 2026 at 1:44 am

    I’ve found gprof to be the best CPU hotspot profiler, and Google Performance Tools to be the best sampling profiler. Both work for C and C++.

    In my opinion there are no good profiling tools on Windows.

    GNU gprof pros and cons

    • GCC only
    • Works with C and C++
    • Only treats CPU time, and code inside the binary, you need everything you wish to profile statically linked in
    • Very accurate
    • Adds a small overhead to execution

    Google Performance Tools pros and cons

    • I think it requires the GNU tool chain
    • Occasionally fails to identify symbols
    • Very customizable
    • Outputs to a huge variety of formats, including the Callgrind format, and automatically loads KCacheGrind for you
    • Has various memory profiling tools also
    • Is a sampling profiler, with minimal overhead

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