CLR Profiler is a
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memory
profiler for the
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from
Microsoft
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. It allows the user to investigate the contents of the managed heap, the behavior of the
garbage collector
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, and the allocation patterns (including call-graph analysis) of the program being profiled.
Overview
The latest version, 4.5, released in November 2012, allows for profiling of .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 or 4.5 managed code as well as
Silverlight
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apps. The source code was originally included under the
Microsoft Limited Reciprocal License (MS-LRL) and hosted on
CodePlex
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. It is now available on
GitHub
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under the
MIT License
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.
CLR Profiler is an intrusive tool; seeing a 10 to 100x slowdown in the application being profiled is not unusual. Therefore, it is not the right tool to find out where time is spent – use other profilers to profile the CPU usage of an application.
Releases
* CLR Profiler for .NET 4.5 (Supported .NET Framework versions: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0.)
* CLR Profiler for .NET 4.0
*
Power Toys for .NET Compact Framework 3.5 (includes a NETCF CLR Profiler)
* CLR Profiler for .NET 2.0
* CLR Profiler for .NET 1.1
CLR Profiler for .NET 1.1
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See also
*List of performance analysis tools
This is a list of performance analysis tools for use in software development.
General purpose, language independent
The following tools work based on log files that can be generated from various systems.
* time (Unix) - can be used to determin ...
* AQtime
*OProfile
In computing, OProfile is a system-wide statistical profiling tool for Linux. John Levon wrote it in 2001 for Linux kernel version 2.4 after his M.Sc. project; it consists of a kernel module, a user-space daemon and several user-space tools.
De ...
References
External links
Original CLR Profiler Site
CLR Profiler usage guide
.NET programming tools
Free and open-source software
Microsoft development tools
Microsoft free software
Software using the MIT license
Windows-only free software
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