[vtkusers] Performance testing VTK applications on Mac OS X 10.5.5

[Michael Jackson]

What you are looking for is "Shark". It is part of Apple's Developer  
tools.

/Developer/Applications/Performance Tools/Shark.app

That will do exactly what you want.

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Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio



On Oct 26, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:

> Hi,
>       Is there any good performance testing solution, for testing  
> VTK applications on Mac OS X 10.5.5?
>
> I have Xcode-3.1.1.
>
> I need a performance testing tool to perform
> a. timing measurements for functions and report on the 10 slowest  
> functions
> b. detect memory leaks
> c. perform structural analysis (statement coverage and decision  
> coverage)
> d. perform static analysis and report on code quality according to a  
> set of standards
>
> In the past, I have used IBM Rational Test Real-Time to do the above  
> 4 points, and Telelogic Logiscope for code quality reports, for  
> other platforms, but these tools are not available for Mac OS X. I  
> was just wondering if there are some other equivalents tools out  
> there for the Mac OS X platform, and if someone has used something  
> similar in the past to do performance testing.
>
> I just want to optimize and tweak the QGraphicsView / VTK off-screen  
> rendering prototype and improve its performance, after performing a  
> performance test.
>
> I'd like to do it first, at the app level, and then at the OpenGL  
> level using the Mac OS X OpenGL profiler.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson