December 19, 2011, Boulder, CO - Rogue Wave Software announced the release of ThreadSpotter 2011.2, the most advanced and easy-to-use performance optimization product for single- and multi-threaded applications. This version of the cache memory optimization tool features the industry-standard FlexNet license manager and enhancements to sampler capabilities and auto-detection of processor information. Linux users wanting to evaluate ThreadSpotter can take advantage of a Guided Evaluation Kit now available.
Additional new features include:
- New installation procedure including a click-to-accept license
- Improvements in detecting the number of CPUs on Intel Processors using the x2APIC feature
- Improved handling of sampling on virtualized hardware
- Updated CPU database (all Intel and AMD processors to Sept 2011)
- Improved detaching from processes on Windows
- Future x86-based CPU instruction set support
- Support for sampling thread IDs in excess of 32767
- Support for the Linux 3X kernel vsyscall interface
- Improved Windows command line report generation
- Initial support for DWARF 3 and DWARF 4 debug format
- Lower memory overhead in post processing