ANTS Profiler™
Reviews
"Every self-respecting software developer wants code that runs quickly and efficiently. However, by looking at the large number of bloated applications out there it's clear that more developers should be using tools such as ANTS Profiler. Without such a tool, effective optimizing code can be quite challenging — and is too often left undone. To avoid contributing to the global epidemic of bloatware, I suggest you download the free 14-day trial of ANTS Profiler to see firsthand what it can do for your code and your reputation as a software creator."
"When optimizing an application, it is essential to focus on the code that's causing the greatest impact on performance. Code profilers use empirical evidence to help identify trouble spots. For an easy-to-use, feature-rich profiler, check out ANTS Profiler."
"I am not aware about any other product which can beat ANTS Profiler. I must say that the product is an excellent tool to analyze a .NET Framework application deeply before is delivery. The product will surely pay rich dividends for your application in long run if used effectively. Hence, the next time when you venture to test the performance of your application, be sure to test drive ANTS Profiler and you will ultimately experience the difference."
"ANTS [Profiler] is an easy-to-use code profiler for your .NET applications. The user interface allows you to easily find the slow performing parts of your application by providing a combination of summary, hierarchy, and source code views of your application."
"Whether you are a beginner or advanced in the field of performance analysis, you will find this utility useful. Indeed, as a beginner, you will access directly and easily the different results. For the advanced, this utility is equally useful as more 'complex' results are available in the various reports." (translation from French)
"Within six minutes I set up, tested, and profiled memory usage of one of my Windows applications. In another five minutes I drilled down into the objects using the most memory and found two classes that needed to be modified to be more memory efficient."
"If you're having performance issues with a .NET application, you really need a tool like this; otherwise it's far too easy to waste your optimization effort in places where it doesn't matter."
"Trying to find bottlenecks in your code can be time consuming and stressful. ANTS Profiler can help you quickly find code slowdowns, saving you time and eliminating at least some stress from your life. I highly recommend ANTS Profiler for developers who want to verify that their code is operating at peak efficiency, for those searching for code bottlenecks, and..."
"Absolutely superb piece of kit that needs to be in every developer's toolkit."
"With ANTS Profiler you can monitor the flow of .NET applications...If the location of the source code is known to ANTS Profiler, you can collect recorded performance data not only per method but even per line. ...it is very important to give your clients not just error-free but also user-friendly and, above all, fast software. For this very reason, the opportunity to obtain, without great expenditure, an overview of performance and vulnerability in your own software is becoming more and more interesting – and even vital. In this article we have met two tools which enable you to do exactly that, and which surely deserve closer consideration!"
"Overall, ANTS Profiler is an impressive product. It has an almost non-existent learning curve and can instantly provide you detailed and invaluable code optimization information."
"ANTS Profiler is an excellent profiling tool that requires almost zero learning curve to use. It seems to work on my existing applications and I'm very satisfied at the level of detail it displays in profiling my application (down to the line of source code)."
"The [ANTS Profiler] results browser is cool. I cruised around the various functions and examined the timings. Soon I discovered one of those problems which profilers were born to find: The .NET RichTextBox class is really, really slow. The problem was easily fixed...Much faster, no lost functionality, everybody will be happier."
"ANTS Profiler delivers on what Red Gate Software promises. It does pinpoint bottleneck code in .NET applications. To this I would add – It pinpoints bottleneck code in one of the easiest to learn and most productive ways available."
"This is a lovely little tool for the .NET Developer who wants to optimize their code. It's a very simple tool, too. Pick an application. Execute it from ANTS Profiler. Look at the results. Drill down through function-level timings and hit counts to individual lines of code. The end result is that it is very easy to see exactly where your code is spending most of its time."
"A review by Rick Wayne in the May 2003 issue of Software Development Magazine calls ANTS Profiler "a commonsense, simple-to-use profiling tool aimed squarely at .NET." Wayne explains the ability of ANTS Profiler to quickly identify slow code, even if it resides in class libraries. As Wayne puts it "if one of those methods is a hog, your program will be a dog, even if your algorithms are cheetahs."
"I would like to thank Red Gate developers for a great tool which makes searching of bottlenecks and bugs really easy and even entertaining."
