Optimizing your first project

To get to the heart of any performance problem, you have to understand where your application is spending its processing time. Using Optimizeit this is a no-brainer. To get started just select the Run | Optimize Project menu option. This brings up a setup dialog as shown in the next figure.

Because my PC has a low amount of RAM, I've set the options here to disable the memory profiler, and just enable the CPU profiler. This will let me focus on finding the hot spots (perhaps ``slow spots'' is a better term) in my application.

Subsections

Finding the performance problems
The first run - reading the contents earlier than needed - an example of how to use avoidance therapy
The second run
The third run - problems with regular expressions
Getting harder now
Other tricks and black magic

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