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Announcing Despiker, a GUI real time profiler for game development
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This is is a visualizer for the Tharsis.prof frame-based profiler library.
Profiling with writeln turned out to be unintuitive, so I ended up making
a GUI.

* Shows a graph of overhead in a frame
* Updates in real time as the profiled program (game) runs
* Can pause to look at the current frame
* Can browse/jump frames, jump to the worst frame.

The GUI is still a bit inconvenient (need slow-motion replay and minimap
to efficiently browse), but it got to the point where it's usable.

Note: this is still unstable and I'm not likely to spend much time on it
in the following months (as I need to work on the project I wrote this
for in the first place.)

GitHub:
  https://github.com/kiith-sa/despiker/issues/16
Video (WebM):
  http://defenestrate.eu/docs/despiker/_static/despiker.webm
Tutorial:
  http://defenestrate.eu/docs/despiker/tutorials/getting_started.html
Tharsis.prof:
  https://github.com/kiith-sa/tharsis.prof

On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 23:55:03 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
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> Announcing Despiker, a GUI real time profiler for game development
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Very cool. Tharsis looks very interesting too. Also, it appears you have a great blog about this and other stuff I'm surprised I've never seen before.

On Sunday, 12 October 2014 at 01:36:15 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 23:55:03 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Announcing Despiker, a GUI real time profiler for game development
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Very cool. Tharsis looks very interesting too. Also, it appears you have a great blog about this and other stuff I'm surprised I've never seen before.

Very cool indeed! Will take closer look at it for sure.

On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 10:32:54 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 October 2014 at 01:36:15 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
>> On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 23:55:03 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Announcing Despiker, a GUI real time profiler for game development
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Very cool. Tharsis looks very interesting too. Also, it appears you have a great blog about this and other stuff I'm surprised I've never seen before.
>
> Very cool indeed! Will take closer look at it for sure.

This happens after just adding

"tharsis-prof": "~>0.4.0" to the dependancies

and running 'dub' in project directory:

C:\Users\bravo\AppData\Roaming\dub\packages\tharsis-prof-0.4.1\source\tharsis\pr
of\despikersender.d(309): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (this.byte
sSentPerProfiler_[threadIdx]) of type ulong to uint
FAIL C:\Users\bravo\AppData\Roaming\dub\packages\tharsis-prof-0.4.1\.dub\build\l
ibrary-debug-windows-x86-dmd_2066-5F4CDB1FE63BE3C80C818C14E6D175D5\ tharsis-prof
 staticLibrary
Error executing command run: dmd failed with exit code 1.

On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 11:09:14 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 10:32:54 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>> On Sunday, 12 October 2014 at 01:36:15 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>> On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 23:55:03 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Announcing Despiker, a GUI real time profiler for game development
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Very cool. Tharsis looks very interesting too. Also, it appears you have a great blog about this and other stuff I'm surprised I've never seen before.
>>
>> Very cool indeed! Will take closer look at it for sure.
>
> This happens after just adding
>
> "tharsis-prof": "~>0.4.0" to the dependancies
>
> and running 'dub' in project directory:
>
> C:\Users\bravo\AppData\Roaming\dub\packages\tharsis-prof-0.4.1\source\tharsis\pr
> of\despikersender.d(309): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (this.byte
> sSentPerProfiler_[threadIdx]) of type ulong to uint
> FAIL C:\Users\bravo\AppData\Roaming\dub\packages\tharsis-prof-0.4.1\.dub\build\l
> ibrary-debug-windows-x86-dmd_2066-5F4CDB1FE63BE3C80C818C14E6D175D5\ tharsis-prof
>  staticLibrary
> Error executing command run: dmd failed with exit code 1.

I made new releases of despiker/tharsis.prof (0.1.1/0.4.2) that fix 32-bit compilation. Couldn't test despiker yet, though.