I need to profile a Kotlin application. What would...
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Marcin Wisniowski
09/12/2023, 5:47 PMI need to profile a Kotlin application. What would be some recommended tooling for that? Not looking for paid software.
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Jeff Lockhart
09/12/2023, 5:50 PMIntelliJ has a profiler.
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Marcin Wisniowski
09/12/2023, 5:53 PMUnfortunately it does not, unless you have Ultimate, hence my question.
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Jeff Lockhart
09/12/2023, 5:54 PMOh, I guess I didn't realize that's an Ultimate feature. Android Studio also has a profiler, but likely only works for an Android app.
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Marcin Wisniowski
09/12/2023, 5:55 PMYeah, Android Studio has a great profiler, but in this case I'm trying to profile a JVM application.
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Andy Hebert
09/12/2023, 6:50 PMI just tried visualvm for the first time this past year. I liked it a lot. We profiled our kotlin app than runs on jvm.
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Nikolay
09/12/2023, 8:24 PMIntelliJ uses async-profiler under the hood, which is free
You can use it to profile and generate flame graphs
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Johannes Bechberger
09/15/2023, 7:55 AMYou could try to use my open-source profiling plugin for IntelliJ 🙂
Johannes Bechberger
09/15/2023, 7:55 AMJohannes Bechberger
09/15/2023, 7:57 AMor watch my JavaZone talk on open-source Java profilers: https://vimeo.com/861946709
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