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Is Tracy complicated enough? Because it's imgui. https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

comment by rootlocus · 2026-07-12 · in Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go

have you looked at tracy : https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy ? it seems to at par, if not better than the other offering.

comment by signa11 · 2025-08-08 · in Arm desktop: emulation

…a program and found their own list of valid grievances, altough it's a bit more GNOME inflicted: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/issues/505#issuecomment-136...

comment by workethics · 2025-06-17 · in KiCad and Wayland Support

…( https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and the gallery issues) See for example the tracy profiler: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy . It seems the game dev community has pretty powerful tools to understand and interrogate their work.

comment by iyeaton · 2025-05-09 · in Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

…analysis UIs: - https://superuser.com/questions/1117466/using-windows-perfor... - https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy - https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex 3D modeling / CAD software: - Blender/Rhino etc - Similar for audio you can search for 'DA

comment by chromy · 2025-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

…tools do a relatively good job of packing lots of information into many, small windows. [1] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy [2] https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc

comment by w4rh4wk5 · 2025-05-08 · in Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

…initial look it's a quite different thing that stands closer to a frame-based profiler like Tracy ( https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy ). As far as differences go: Microprofile: - frame-based - needs a build system - memory usage starts at 2…

comment by GeorgeHaldane · 2025-04-15 · in Show HN: Single-Header Profiler for C++17

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for but I found https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy to work rather well. There is an integration for the tracing crate that can get you very far: https://lib.rs/crates/tracing-tracy . If you're…

comment by elevader · 2025-02-14 · in Rust: Doubling Throughput with Continuous Profiling and Optimization

…UI could be used on both macOS and Linux. If I had more time and energy, I'd do it myself. [1]: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy [2]: https://perfetto.dev/

comment by cstrahan · 2024-11-10 · in Intentrace: Strace for Everyone

https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/issues/887 MSVC changed the mutex constructor to constexpr, breaking binary backward compatibility. They say WONTFIX, you must use the latest MSVCRT with the latest MSVC. But I have the latest MSVCRT…

comment by mastax · 2024-09-24 · in Tracy: A real time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler

On x86/AMD64 it uses CPU's TSC clock. https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/blob/master/public/client/T...

comment by vardump · 2024-09-24 · in Tracy: A real time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler

…(I will definitely find a use for this, it looks amazing.) [1]: https://tracy.nereid.pl/ [2]: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/releases/latest/download/tr... [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/devel...

comment by jchw · 2024-09-22 · in Logging all C++ destructors, poor mans run-time tracing

…data, analyze, and respond. It’s also open source, but rivals any product you’d have to pay for: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

comment by MontagFTB · 2024-09-21 · in Logging all C++ destructors, poor mans run-time tracing

…lock contention, runtime values and notes, arbitrary value graphs, and more. Highly recommended: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

comment by MontagFTB · 2024-06-28 · in Flame Graphs: Making the opaque obvious (2017)

i don't really think there is _anything_ that comes even close to tracy https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy . on top of this, given google's penchant for dumping projects aka abandonware, this would be an easy pass.

comment by signa11 · 2024-02-12 · in Orbit: C/C++ Performance Profiler

There's a bunch of really good C++ profilers already. My current favourite is Tracy: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

comment by Ono-Sendai · 2024-02-12 · in Orbit: C/C++ Performance Profiler

The RemedyBG debugger ( https://remedybg.handmade.network/ ) and the Tracy profiler ( https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy ) both use Dear ImGui and so far I've only read high praise from people who used those tools compared to the…

comment by flohofwoe · 2024-01-16 · in Immediate Mode GUI Programming

https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy Source

comment by popcalc · 2024-01-07 · in Tracy Frame Profiler

…get their response. For a higher percentile, you get a better idea of worst-case performance. [1] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

comment by interroboink · 2023-10-14 · in Linux Performance

If you aren't adverse to manual instrumentation there's also Tracy[1]. [1]: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

comment by genpfault · 2022-04-22 · in Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing

tracy ( https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy ), mentioned in this article as well, for some reason is criminally underused, unknown etc. by wider community.

comment by signa11 · 2022-01-28 · in Magic-trace: Diagnose tricky performance issues with Intel Processor Trace

…latency, then I've had a good experience generating flame graphs[2] using plain Linux perf. [1] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy [2] https://www.brendangregg.com/FlameGraphs/cpuflamegraphs.html

comment by interroboink · 2021-11-05 · in Optick: C++ Profiler for Games

A great option for profiling Vulkan code is Tracy, which is a free and open source profiler: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy It supports profiling multiple Vulkan queues using VK_EXT_debug_utils timestamps.

comment by nosferalatu75 · 2021-07-06 · in Show HN: VKtracer – vendor-neutral and cross-platform GPU profiler for Vulkan

…to use ImGui (the library), to spend some time building a retained GUI wrapper around it :-P. [0] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/blob/master/server/TracySou... [1] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/blob/master/server/TracyVie... [2]…

comment by badsectoracula · 2021-02-14 · in The complexity that lives in the GUI

…like Tracy, there's no question that immediate mode UIs also work well for non-trivial use cases: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

comment by flohofwoe · 2021-02-14 · in The complexity that lives in the GUI

In the video, Kelley refers to Tracy [1]. I hadn't heard of it before but it looks interesting. [1] https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

comment by wyldfire · 2020-09-28 · in Zig's New Relationship with LLVM

…that will let you know down to sub-microseconds what the code is doing. Tracy is a good choice ( https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy ) but there are others, e.g. Telemetry.

comment by Torkel · 2020-08-02 · in Low latency tuning guide

…me who initially missed the link to the documentation, it is available on github, in the releases: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/releases/download/v0.6.3/tr...

comment by bialpio · 2020-05-11 · in Tracy Profiler – a real-time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler

…common sense). If you want to build the profiler (or any other tool), there are Makefiles for unix: https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/tree/master/profiler/build/... > I'm just trying to find out how to build your project on a free OS…

comment by rootlocus · 2020-05-11 · in Tracy Profiler – a real-time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler