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A unit of profiling makes the allocations go away

September 25, 2023 Sep 25, 2023 09/25/23
Nik Karpinsky
In Visual Studio 17.8 Preview 2 we have updated unit test profiling, allowing you to use any of the available tools in the performance profiler – not just the instrumentation tool. With this change, it’s easy to quickly profile small units of work in isolation, make changes, and then remeasure and validate the impact of the change. ...

Visual Studio 2022 Performance Enhancements 17.4

November 21, 2022 Nov 21, 2022 11/21/22
Nayana Srikanth
Every new Visual Studio release includes new performance improvements that make the product faster and more responsive. 17.4 has some significant improvements across common scenarios like  Find in Files, Branch switching, configuration changes, unit testing, C++ indexing and file saving. We use product telemetry from our GA releases to set ...