Concurrency Visualizer
By using the Concurrency Visualizer, you can examine how your multithreaded app performs. The views in the Concurrency Visualizer provide graphical, tabular, and textual data that shows the temporal relationships between the threads in your program and the system as a whole. You can use the Concurrency Visualizer to locate performance bottlenecks, CPU underutilization, thread contention, cross-core thread migration, synchronization delays, DirectX activity, areas of overlapped I/O, and other information. The views provide data that you can act on by linking its graphical output to call stacks and source code. The Concurrency Visualizer is integrated into Visual Studio to enable an efficient workflow.
The Concurrency Visualizer relies on Event Tracing for Windows functionality.
Note
The Concurrency Visualizer doesn't support Web projects.
What’s New in the Concurrency Visualizer for Visual Studio 2012
New Concurrency Visualizer features include:
Information about GPU activity for C++ AMP apps.
The Concurrency Visualizer SDK, which you can use to link the visualizations to application phases.
Improvements to performance and scalability that enable larger traces in less time.
Concurrency Visualizer Command Line Utility (CVCollectionCmd), which you can use to collect a Concurrency Visualizer trace on a machine that doesn't have Visual Studio.
Related Topics
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Describes how to view and analyze system activity across all processors. |
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Describes how to analyze the interactions between threads in your program. |
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Describes how to analyze thread migration across cores. |
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Common Patterns for Poorly-Behaved Multithreaded Applications |
Describes several common patterns and shows how they appear in the Concurrency Visualizer. |
Provides tips and best practices for the Concurrency Visualizer. |
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Provides reference information for the reports and views of Visual Studio Profiling Tools. |
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Describes how to instrument your source code to display additional information in the Concurrency Visualizer. |
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Concurrency Visualizer Command Line Utility (CVCollectionCmd) |
Describes how to use the Concurrency Visualizer command line utility (CVCollectionCmd.exe) to collect and process traces on machines that don't have Visual Studio. |