Case Study: Using Visual Studio Profiler to reduce memory allocations in the Windows Terminal console host startup path

Austin Lamb October 11, 2021 Oct 11, 2021 10/11/21

Setting The Stage Around the holidays of 2020 it was a bit quieter, and I decided it might be a great time to go investigate how the Visual Studio profiling tools worked. I have been a long-time user of the Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA), which is a great tool for doing systems-level performance analysis. It is, however, quite complex and...