Source code profiler for Delphi

ProDelphi
Source code profiler for Delphi 5..7, 2005, 2006 (incl. Turbo Delphi), 2007, 2009 and 2010 (Win 32 applications)

ProDelphi is a tool to measure the runtime of programs written in Delphi Object Pascal. First successful industrial usage of ProDelphi was in February 1998. Since then ProDelphi has been permanently improved, also a lot of customer suggestions were integrated.

The principle of source instrumenting, the sophisticated measurement correction algorithm and the granularity of 1 CPU-cycle guarantee an outstanding measurement accuracy. Even very small or multiple nested functions are measured precisely. After profiling with ProDelphi you know where the bottle neck is, not where it might be (see profiler types ). To compare the measurement accuracy of ProDelphi with any other profiler, a profiler tester is supplied in the download area.

Source instrumenting also ensures that idle times caused by certain Delphi- or Windows- API-functions (e.g. Sleep, MessageBox, WaitForSingleObject etc.) are automatically excluded from measurement.

The extremly low measurement overhead guarantees even to measure time critical applications.

The user friendly human interface makes the profiling process fast and easy, the sorting viewer enables the user to find the bottlenecks at first glance. With one mouse click the file with the measured method is opened in Delphi. The cursor is positioned at the beginning of the measured method.

An optional call graph shows who called a procedure and who is called by it. Also how often this happened and what time was consumed when processing this path is displayed. This call graph makes a quick 'following the execution path' possible without searching in the sources.

With printing measurement results the success of an optimization can be documented.

In the download part a 2 minute video is stored that shows how easy it is, to measure the runtime of an application with ProDelphi.

Versions:

There are four versions of ProDelphi:

Freeware version for Ansi code applications,
Freeware version for Unicode code applications,
Professional version for Ansi code applications and
Professional version for Unicode applications.

The Freeware versions measure the runtime of up to 20 procedures.

The Professional versions measure the runtime of up to 64000 procedures, additionally measure pure assembler functions / procedures and have some minor important additional functions (like evaluation of minimum/maximum runtimes).

The versions for Unicode applications are like the versions for Ansi code applications and

additionally support source code identifiers (e.g. procedure names) and unit names containing Non-Ansi code characters.
additionally support file pathes containing Non-Ansi code characters.

All versions can process source code contaning Non-Ansi characters in comments or strings.

Requirements:

Pentium processor or compatible (e.g. AMD K6/Duron/Athlon/Turion)
For mobile processors the Power save mode should be deactivated during the measurement
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7
64MB additional free memory
Delphi 5..7, 2005, 2006 (incl. Turbo Delphi), 2007, 2009 and 2010 (all versions). ProDelphi is also delivered in a box with Delphi 6 / 7 / 2005 / 2007 and 2010 (on the companion CD's). Newer versions can be downloaded from this site.

Updated: December/1/2009