Windows Performance Tools: Thread Analysis with Intel VTune Amplifier

Find out how to use Intel's VTune Amplifier performance-profiling tool to visualize and analyze the performance of single-threaded vs. multithreaded Windows apps.

Introduction

• Overview
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• Introducing Intel VTune Amplifier
• Installing the VTune Amplifier
• Setting up the VTune Amplifier for the first time
• VTune Amplifier standalone GUI
• VTune standalone Top-down tree

1. Thread Analysis

• House building demo app
• Single-threaded source code
• Analyzing single threaded apps
• Single-threaded hotspots: Summary
• Single-threaded hotspots: Bottom-up
• Single-threaded hotspots: Top-down
• Multithreaded source code
• Analyzing multithreaded apps
• Multithreaded hotspots: Summary
• Multithreaded hotspots: Bottom-up
• Multithreaded hotspots: Top-down
• Multithreaded hotspots: Thread activity
• Single vs. multithreaded: Comparisons

Conclusion

• Next steps