Using the Microsoft Windows DNA Performance Kit

Now that you have encountered several optimization tips, you will learn about using the Microsoft Windows DNA Performance Kit to test your own applications It's a great way to test components under simulated conditions. And you get a pretty accurate indication of how the application components will perform in a live situation.

You might be smugly saying to yourself, "My components are already optimized. I know how to write tight code." I've said that myself a time or two, only to be wrong. The first time was in 1991 when some of us still wrote graphics functions in assembly language. I had carefully calculated the number of machines cycles for each line of code and just knew I couldn't get the function ...

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