Archive - Computer, Enhance!

Q&A #69 (2025-01-13)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Jan 14

44:58

Q&A #68 (2025-01-06)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Jan 6

53:46

December 2024

November 2024

Q&A #67 (2024-11-18)

Answers to questions from the last Q&A thread.

Nov 18, 2024

36:16

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Nov 18, 2024 •

Real-time PMCs on Windows with ETW

It's not pretty, but believe it or not, it works.

Nov 2, 2024

56:46

October 2024

Halloween Spooktacular Day 15: Use GetEventProcessorIndex to Help Track Profile Regions

Today is the last day of the Spooktacular Challenge!

Oct 30, 2024

Halloween Spooktacular Day 14: Use SysCallEnter to Mark Stop Points

Technically, to mark stop points, you could recycle yesterday’s hint and use SysCallExit events.

Oct 29, 2024

Halloween Spooktacular Day 13: Use SysCallExit to Mark Start Points

Today’s hint reveals the kernel event to use for marking the start of a profiling block.

Oct 28, 2024

Halloween Spooktacular Day 12: Find Another PMC Event Type

If you’ve managed to get PMC collection via ETW working, and you’ve managed to get TraceEvent-based insertion of events at profiling start/stop points…

Oct 27, 2024

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