Code Profiling on AMD Systems?

streak writes "After looking around at some profilers for AMD chips (I'm currently developing on Windows .NET so oprofile, dtrace, and other open source profilers are out) like AMD's CodeAnalyst and Microsoft's .NET Profiler, I've seen nothing that even comes close to being useful for function timing, call graphs, and the like. I'm not looking for micro-optimization (i.e. assembly tweaking - I am after all in .NET), but more for macro-optimization (identifying slow functions, reducing number of repeated calls to functions, etc). What I'm comparing all these tools to is VTune (which is Intel only). What do people use for profiling on AMD systems on Windows? Do you develop on an Intel box, do macro-optimization with VTune, and then just run that code on the AMD system?"

Comments

Use VTune

[LLuthor]

If you prefer working with VTune, just use VTune. At a high level, it doesn't matter whether you are working on an AMD or Intel CPU since the .NET JIT code will be almost identical.

The intel tools are absolutely fantastic and integrate perfectly with VS and most other .NET tools. Its not worth your time and effort to use inferior products just for the sake of using AMD hardware. Just profile your code on an intel box and depoly on any box (since .NET doesn't care).

I have't worked much with .NET, but for C++ nothing beats intel's C++ compiler and profiling tools. Even though I strongly prefer AMD hardware (I don't use laptops much), I keep a few intel boxes around for developing high performance C++.