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V3.X features missing in action?

Hi,

I just downloaded the beta today and started playing with it. I think the new features are nice a lot of eye candy :) however there are a couple of things missing or I haven't be able to find them: The summary tab and the result panel. Are these features gone or I'm just lost in the new UI?

Regards,
--Aaron.
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  • StephenC
    Hi,

    you are correct in that they both no longer exist in ANTS 4.

    The summary tab was taken out as the information was simply being duplicated in the other views. So, most of the top 10 worst methods with children simply appear in the opening stack trace. The all methods grid sorted by either Time or Time with Children gives you exactly the same information as the top 10 in the old summary tab. The only equivalent thing which doesn't exist is the top 10 worst lines of code.

    As for the result panel, you shouldn't really need it any more.

    If you click and drag a region on the timeline and then simply boomark that region it would be the equivalent of a result set if i've understood you correctly. There is no need for snapshots any more, simply select regions you are interested in and mark them out. You can also add a description to any region.

    Regards,

    Stephen
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  • anevarez
    I see, the summary was nice report too bad it was removed.
    About the results panel, maybe I'm missing something but let me put an example: A small console application with V3.X I can run it change it run it again and all my results are being stacked in the results panel and I can compare the progress as I'm doing the changes but with version 4 every time I run the program either the previous results are lost or it gives me another instance is there a way to get around this?

    --Aaron.
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  • StephenC
    Hi,

    We’re only going to support one open set of results at a time because each results set takes up so much memory. If I profile an application which is moderatly CPU intensive with a number method calls in detailed mode for 3-4 minutes you could potentially end up using about 500-600MB of memory in AP4.

    This is unavoidable given the amount of data we’re now dealing with, so it wouldn't be wise to offer multiple result set support.

    What you could do is just run more than one instance of AP4 and switch between them, although if memory is limited you will likely find the responsiveness of your machine suffering as Windows desperately flings information from memory onto disk.

    We could look at additional exporting options for future patch releases to help alleviate the issue for you.

    Regards,

    Stephen
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