quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster You totally lost me dude.
OK, I''ll put it another way. Basically, people can spend a lot of time optimising low-level code because their high-level design is inappropriate and causes the low-level code to be executed more times than it needs to. You should look at the high-level picture before deciding that low-level optimisation is appropriate.
Ahhh, that makes sense now. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I''m thinking about purchasing the book "Code Complete" for some instruction on how to write structurally good high level code. That book recieved some very good reviews.
VC++ 6.0 profiler ROCKS!!!! Thanks a MILLION for telling me about it!!! It is exactly the type of thing I was looking for-and easy way to time code without having to do it manually.
quote:Original post by Qa303asmGuru VC++ 6.0 profiler ROCKS!!!!
As profilers go, it''s rather basic. There are far better ones out there if you are willing to fork out the cash.
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I tried using the VC++ 6.0 profiler, but it doesn''t seem to be working right. It starts my program, switches the screen mode, but after a few seconds, it switches back without any errors or anything. This is similar to what would happen if I have a problem with a null pointer or file not found or something, but when I run the program normally, I don''t get any problems at all. The profiling information is listed, but it''s only 7 seconds worth, really just init functions.
I think i will ask now something also about optimation.
I have heared of STLPort - a faster STL implantation. How fast is it realy? Does make using STLPort instead of the VC++ 6.0 stl sense? Then i am thinking that a very good point for optimations are the basic mathstuff like vectors, matrices or qautern. I found at the webpage of AMD and Intel some optimiced routines and a peace of source wich detact the cup of the target computer. What do you think about this optinon, to use, if possible, special cpu optimiced stuff.
