Remotery VS VLD

Compare Remotery vs VLD and see what are their differences.

Remotery

Single C file, Realtime CPU/GPU Profiler with Remote Web Viewer (by Celtoys)

VLD

Visual Leak Detector for Visual C++ 2008-2015 (by KindDragon)
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Remotery VLD
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2,728 1,000
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7.9 2.4
3 months ago 11 months ago
C C++
Apache License 2.0 GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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Remotery

Posts with mentions or reviews of Remotery. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-05.
  • Remotery - Single c file, realtime cpu/gpu profiler with remote web viewer
    1 project | /r/github_trends | 19 Aug 2022
  • We Trace a KV Database with Less Than 5% Performance Impact
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2021
    Remotery - https://github.com/Celtoys/Remotery

    Visual Studio's built-in profiler is an ok sampling profiler. It doesn't give you a nice multi-thread view which is a huge advantage to a span based profiler.

    MTuner is quite nice for debugging memory usage. Which is another gaping hole in the Rust ecosystem. https://github.com/milostosic/mtuner

    Lots of tools generate data in a format viewable by the Chrome trace viewer. I think Chrome's tracer viewer is not great. Maybe someday someone will create a viewer for the format that's good. I get cranky when large traces don't render at 60fps. Web-based viewers are almost all very very slow and it makes me sad.

VLD

Posts with mentions or reviews of VLD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • How reliable is VC22's "Memory detection"?
    1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 27 Mar 2023
    Hm, a quick search revealed this github repo, and a page on the VS plugin site, but they both seem to be a bit outdated (I use VS 2022). The first one also mentions a built-in visual leak detector. Which one were you refering to?
  • Why does this bit of code cause a ~4KB/S memory leak? (SDL2)
    1 project | /r/programminghelp | 20 Aug 2021
    Honestly it won't do you much good if you're on Windows anyway. You can try Visual Leak Detector or maybe something like Dr.Memory but I couldn't tell you. I do all of my C++ work on windows either on the WSL or through a SSH connection to a Linux machine.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Remotery and VLD you can also consider the following projects:

easy_profiler - Lightweight profiler library for c++

Google Test - GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework

Celero - C++ Benchmark Authoring Library/Framework

Google Mock

libtap - Write tests in C

gdb-frontend - ☕ GDBFrontend is an easy, flexible and extensible gui debugger. Try it on https://debugme.dev

benchmark - A microbenchmark support library

hayai - C++ benchmarking framework

doctest - The fastest feature-rich C++11/14/17/20/23 single-header testing framework

Catch - A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD - using C++14, C++17 and later (C++11 support is in v2.x branch, and C++03 on the Catch1.x branch)