Optimizing with Shark (RBL-0013)

If you want to squeeze maximum performance out of your REALbasic applications, and you are developing under Mac OS X, you need to know about Shark, the free profiling tool available from the Apple Developer web site. Shark runs in the background while your application is running, peeking at your application’s call stack every few microseconds or so, and gathering a statistical profile of what code is running, how often, and for how long. Using Shark’s data mining and analysis tools, you can identify the most time-critical sections of your code, concentrating your optimizations where they will do the most good.