Looking at the CAP output files can be tedious if you have a large program with hundreds or thousands of functions. The CapView utility (CAPVIEW.EXE) provides a great visual alternative. This utility is available in the Platform SDK.
The following figures show some of the data from running the repaired Solitaire as it is displayed by CapView:
Each box in the CapView tree represents a line in the SOL.CAP file. If you zoom out you see the overview, and if you zoom in you can see the details of each line.
The first figure in the box is the number of calls made to that routine.
The rightmost number in the next line of figures is the time spent in the function itself, expressed in microseconds. The left number is the attributed time. This is the time spent in the function, expressed as a percentage of the time in the function plus the time in the functions it calls. The middle figure is time in the function as a percentage of time in the entire program.
In the last line, the rightmost number is the attributed time. The middle number is the attributed time in this function as a percentage of time in the program. And the leftmost number is the time in this function as a percentage of attributed time in the calling function.
The list view of CapView is illustrated following. The attributed columns are shown, but the function-only columns are also available.
