yse/easy_profiler

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2371 stars · 202 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A lightweight cross-platform profiler library for C++ that instruments arbitrary code blocks with extremely low overhead (~15ns per block). It streams profiling data over the network or dumps it to file, and includes a GUI viewer with timeline rendering, statistics, and thread context-switch capture.

Use cases

• profile function execution times in a C++ application
• find performance bottlenecks in game engine code
• measure how long specific blocks of code take
• capture thread context-switch events to analyze scheduling
• leave a profiler in release builds and enable it at runtime
• visualize profiling data on a timeline with a GUI

When to choose

• you need a C/C++ profiler with minimal runtime overhead
• you want to instrument arbitrary code blocks with simple macros
• you need cross-platform profiling including Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android
• you want runtime-enabled profiling in production builds

When to avoid

• you need GPU or hardware-level profiling
• you want a sampling profiler without code instrumentation
• your project is not in C/C++
• you need heap/memory profiling rather than time profiling

Facets

library · maturity stable

monitoring benchmarking developer-tools performance developer-tools cross-platform windows cpp cross-platform profiler instrumentation low-overhead timeline-gui context-switch-capture linux macos android

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