Additional hidden statistics in the results grid (version 3)

Category: How do I?
Date: 10 Jun 2009
Product: ANTS Profiler
Versions: 3.1,3.2

What statistical information is available from performance profiling?

In addition to the default information shown in the 'all methods' tab for ANTS Profiler, there are additional statistics that may also prove useful. By default, the 'all methods' tab shows the following information:

Namespace, Method name, Time (sec.), Time with children (sec.), Hit count, and Source file

By right-clicking the column header in the all methods tab and clicking 'Choose columns', the following information can be added by dragging one or more of the following columns from the 'Choose columns' window to the 'all methods' tab:

- Assembly -- The name of the .dll or .exe file that the method appears in.
- Average time (sec.) -- Rather than the total method time across all invocations, show the average run time for the method.
- Average time (ticks) -- The average time spent processing by the method for each invocation
- Average time with children (sec.) -- The average time for the method, including methods invoked from this method
- Average time with children (ticks) -- The average processing time spent by this method
- Minimum time (sec.) -- The shortest time that the method had spent running
- Minimum time (ticks) -- The least time spent processing by an invocation of this method
- Maximum time (sec.) -- The longest time that the method had spent running
- Maximum time (ticks) -- The most time spent processing by an invocation of this method
- Module file -- The full path to the module containing the method
- Module version ID -- A globally-unique identifier (GUID) for the module
- Time (ticks) -- The total time spent through all invocations of the method, expressed in timer ticks
- Time with children (ticks) -- The total time spent processing by the method and methods invoked by this method, expressed in timer ticks