03.12.2015 
What is GammaRay? For starters, it’s a powerful electromagnetic wave, as well as a way to treat cancer. It’s also an under-appreciated German speed metal band. And it’s what gives Dr. Bruce Banner his big green alter ego. But Qt aficionados will know the GammaRay that we’re talking about is an uber-powerful Qt debugger and introspection tool. If you’re […]
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What’s New in KD Reports 1.7? Released 22-09
The latest release of KD Reports further enhances your ability to get printable and exportable reports from code and XML descriptions. For those who like using CMake instead of qmake, you’ll be glad to know KD Reports now comes with a fully functioning CMake buildsystem (see INSTALL-cmake.txt). In addition, we have added Frame element and Report::setDocumentName(), to be […]
How to use static analysis to improve performance
It’s usually said “only improve performance where a profiler tells you to“. I don’t completely agree. Take a big C++ library like Qt: can you profile all classes and all code paths ? It would take a couple of years to accomplish and analyse the results. It’s expensive: It usually only happens if the speed-up […]
How to Profile QtQuick applications on Freescale i.MX 6 with vAnalyzer
Quick overview of profiling tools QtQuick is often used to create UIs for embedded devices. One SoC that is quite popular at the moment is the i.MX 6 board from Freescale, with its Vivante GC2000 or GC880 3D GPU. Performance on such a device matters, users expect a fluid interaction. With the QML Profiler, Qt […]