Overviews: Performance Tuning

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What is presented here should give you the concepts to help you increase your application's performance.

Performance tuning means several questions and issues:

• What part of your code has to be fast?
  
  
• Know the size and speed of your code.
  
  
• Know the cost of new features.
  
  
• Know the minimum work needed to accomplish the job.

Visual C++ has several tools that you can use to measure performance:

• PView (“process viewer”)
  
  
• Profiler
  
  
• Spy++
  
  
• Windows NT Performance monitor

The Performance Tuning section covers the following topics:

• Profiling
  
  
• Tips for Improving Time-Critical Code