Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Daniel Demetris George Moth

Jackson Michael Davis

Paul Maybee

Gregory Bernard Miskelly

Oleg Izmerly

Daniel Joshua Taylor

Andrew Brian Hall

Karl Melder

Zhaoqing Wu

Assistance is given to aid in optimizing a program's performance during initial development while the program's features are still being implemented and/or debugged, without interfering with that development, by providing easy-to-ignore yet accurate tips about a program's performance inside a debugger. Raw performance information for a software program which is being debugged in a debugger is adjusted by removing from it a measured debug overhead or other diagnostic overhead. Some factors considered when measuring overhead include pauses, context switches, debug versus release build presence, bounds checking, funceval, and call stack analyses. The debugger is enhanced to display the adjusted program performance measure in a graphical user interface, next to the corresponding source code. The enhanced debugger updates the adjusted program performance measure value and keeps its screen location current as the developer moves through the source code, providing more detailed performance information upon request.

Performance optimization tip presentation during debugging

User interface technologies for viewing the state of threads of a target parallel application, such as a massively parallel application intended to run on a GPGPU system, during debugging of the target parallel application are disclosed. The target parallel application includes a kernel, and the kernel includes a set of threads. Coalesced thread information of the threads is presented with the user interface technologies based on user-controllable criteria.

Debugger presentation of parallel application threads

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