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Written by Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma on 2025-01-13 at 13:34

We're going to be refreshing Superluminal's website this year. We have a pretty good idea of what to change, but I'm curious —

In your own words, if you're using Superluminal, why do you like using it?

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Written by Stefan Reinalter on 2025-01-13 at 13:49

@rovarma Because it is dead simple to use and get running, and it immediately shows me the biggest culprits in terms of lost performance or stalls.

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Written by Neil Henning on 2025-01-13 at 13:58

@rovarma it’s the quickest way that I can find slow code and make it not slow. I find the easy access to the disassembly view of slow code makes it phenomenally powerful for working out what I or the compiler did wrong and how to fix it.

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Written by the tower fairy on 2025-01-13 at 14:15

@rovarma it is plain and utter simple (even led me to lose a job due to its clarity 😅), unsure if you have added DWARF support on Windows but that would be a big plus at my current place

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Written by Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma on 2025-01-13 at 16:58

@crystalmoon there’s no dwarf support on windows currently, but it will most likely come along with the Linux support

even led me to lose a job due to its clarity

sorry to hear that! but also, tell me more! 🙈

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Written by Maciej Sinilo on 2025-01-13 at 18:46

@rovarma 0 friction. It sometimes takes me literally 5 minutes from capturing the profile to pinpointing the problem

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Written by Aras Pranckevičius on 2025-01-13 at 19:12

@rovarma because it is fastest way from “oh I wonder what’s going on here” to “oh shit, it is this!”

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Written by Aras Pranckevičius on 2025-01-13 at 19:47

@rovarma also curiously, but maybe not that surprisingly, I'm sometimes using Superluminal to learn about how some piece of code works. Capture the run, and then I can see what calls what, in which order things happen, etc. Things higher up provide broad overview, and can drill down into what happens at leaf levels.

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Written by superfunc on 2025-01-13 at 20:39

@aras @rovarma same! this is how I figured out what things like Qt were doing since the callback setup was hard to reason about directly

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Written by Bartosz Taudul on 2025-01-13 at 22:02

@aras @rovarma Telling you how things are connected in a program is an essential feature of a profiler!

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Written by Sebastian Schöner on 2025-01-14 at 07:25

@wolfpld @aras @rovarma profilers are the programmer's x-ray machines

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Written by agersant on 2025-01-13 at 20:42

@rovarma

✔ Reliable

✔ No integration needed

✔ Great UI

✔ Feels bloat-free

✔ Fairly priced personal license

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Written by Sebastian Schöner on 2025-01-14 at 07:28

@rovarma zero setup, zero friction, amazing support. Made by people who obviously use their own tools and underatand what "user pain" is. Gives you the information you actually want out of VTune 99% of the time except it doesn't crash, doesn't hang, doesn't take ages.

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Written by LarsThiessen on 2025-01-14 at 13:41

@rovarma In my experience it's the only profiler out there, that actually "just works". I didn't even read the manual. Never had this happen with this type of software, ever.

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