Profiling

Kind: technique

Layer: Performance Core

Record: architecture:profiling

Severity: recommended

Scope: runtime, code path

Canonical: Ontology

A technique for measuring where a running program spends its time and memory under a representative workload.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Optimization and before Benchmarking.

Requires

• Representative Workload

Reinforces

• Performance Engineering

Enables

• Bottleneck Detection

Conflicts with

• Guesswork

In tension with

• Measurement Overhead

Tensions

• Profiling / Measurement Overhead

Violated by

• Guesswork

Severity

• recommended

Techniques

• Profiling

Category

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Refactors

• Vertical Scaling
• Resource Utilization

Required by

• Optimization
• Bottleneck Analysis

Linked from

• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• The techniques
• Severity levels
• The resolutions