S60 Open to new features

Wow, it's been a while... A happy new year to all!

I wanted to take some of your time to show off some of the features in Carbide.c++ 1.1 Professional Edition. Performance Investigator allows you to track the CPU consumption of individual threads and functions, and to identify which binaries those threads/functions are associated with. Additionally, you can analyze the caller/callee relationships of a given function.

The basic concept is that you install the PI agent on the target device, start PI sampling, start your app, run your favorite performance-hogging use case, and then stop the PI agent. PI will save the file on the device. Once you've moved the file over to the PC, you need to pair it with the project you're analyzing to view thread loads of your app only. Or, if you work in device creation and have access to ROM files, you can pair it with symbol files to get a complete view of the system.

The software works on-device with S60 3rd Edition phones, including final releases and CE devices. Versions are also available for UIQ/SEMC phones, although the agent is currently not available publicly -- only to those working on SEMC device creation projects.

Download the screencast here. (Apologies, it's an EXE file)