CAMBRIDGE, England, February 19, 2003 – Red Gate Software has released ANTS Profiler, a $295 software tool that lets developers drill down to examine slow code in any .NET application, pinpointing problems in less than five minutes.
A free, fully functional, trial version of ANTS Profiler can be downloaded from the Red Gate website. The site also provides a video demonstration of the product in action.
According to Red Gate, the following attributes differentiate ANTS Profiler from other profiler products on the market:
- Its $295 price is hundreds of dollars below that of most code profilers.
- It profiles both .NET Windows and web applications.
- It's simple and fast – developers can get useful results 5 minutes after downloading it.
- It profiles applications written in any of the 30 or 40 languages supported by the .NET framework.
- Find slow code fast.
"ANTS Profiler enables developers to find slow code fast," says Simon Galbraith, Red Gate's Director of Marketing. "The slow parts of your code often aren't where you'd think they'd be. It's very rare that the bottleneck is in the obvious place, and what's the point of spending ages optimizing a piece of code if it is never called?"
Understanding coding behavior
ANTS Profiler also helps developers understand the behavior of complex code and the trade-offs that determine how it performs.
"You can't optimize your code until you understand how it's working," says Galbraith. "ANTS Profiler answers the key questions, such as: What are the performance overheads of floating-point vs. integer arithmetic, and does it really matter with today's fast processors? Or does the problem stem from allocating thousands of items on the managed heap? Is the serialization of your class to disk taking the time, or is it the painting to the screen? Or maybe it's the database calls you're making."
Proven in large-scale applications
ANTS Profiler has undergone extensive beta testing and has already been used successfully in several large-scale projects.
INFOSys Kommunal used ANTS Profiler to find performance bottlenecks for data handling and to optimize the complex GUI for an application used by more than 300 regional governments and thousands of citizens throughout Germany.
"ANTS Profiler has the best and easiest-to-use GUI of any profiler I have seen," says Martin Hossfeld, INFOSys's chief software architect. "Within an hour of installing it, my app. was running significantly faster. It makes it easy to track down bottlenecks with my code that are causing problems."
US-based Digital Visions used ANTS Profiler to determine program bottlenecks in its code before going live with its high-traffic web applications.
"ANTS Profiler significantly reduces the amount of time it takes to identify unexpectedly slow lines of code," says Joshua Gall, director of Microsoft development for Digital Visions. "It not only shows our developers the amount of time it takes for a particular function or line of code to execute, it tells them how many times that line of code is hit."
Epitomy, based in Sheffield, England, used ANTS Profiler to identify problematic code within an online parts catalog for the UK's leading supplier of after-market auto parts.
"We believe the 80/20 principle is particularly applicable to ANTS Profiler," says Andrew Vernon, Epitomy's director. "It quickly highlights the top 10 problem areas in terms of speed, and, once fixed, they account for 80 percent of the available performance boost from the code."
About Red Gate Software
Red Gate Software makes simple tools for Microsoft developers and DBAs. The company is a Microsoft Gold Visual Studio .NET launch partner and a VSIP partner. Other developer and tester tools by Red Gate include SQL Compare for comparing and synchronizing SQL databases, and ANTS Load for load-testing .NET web applications.
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