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    Superluminal

    superluminal.eu · Company blog · on HN since 2018

    The team behind the Superluminal performance profiler writes about profiling, callstack compression, font rendering, and sorting large data.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters recommend the Superluminal profiler as a happy customer, praising its GUI, flame charts, Rust support, and advantage over the built-in ETW viewer.

    Stats for nerds
    16HN people shared it
    12linked in comments
    20story points
    Dec 2024last shared
    2023people per year2024

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      16xAA font rendering using coverage masks
      4 people · 7 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
    2. 2
      Compressing callstacks: a bitpacked DAG powered by a keyless hashmap
      2 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · Discussion on HN
    3. 3
      Superluminal – a new performance profiler for Windows
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      New CPU profiler available for Rust on Windows
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Superluminal: Profiling Reimagined
      4 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      16xAA font rendering using coverage masks, part I
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2023 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Superluminal Profiler is now available for Linux
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
    8. 8
      Efficiently sorting gigabytes: the Deferred Merge Sort
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2026 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Features
      1 person · first shared 2021

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • noxaJan 2023

      Having written similar tools like this in the past I pretty much exclusively use Tracy nowadays and let all my old stuff rot. The UI is snappy/fluid even with a tremendous amount of events, instrumentation is rich (zones/plots/memory tracking with timing, GPU events, logging, etc) and sampling is robust across all major platforms (Windows/Android/Linux/Mac) and the disassembly/analysis is as solid as most vendor tools. If wanting to integrate/use any tool like this I strongly recommend Tracy and then occasionally using vendor tooling where better (but platform/hardware limited). Having a single swiss-army knife perf tool makes it much easier for most of the team to learn and use it and leave the specialized knowledge of vendor tooling to those who need it.

      There's also superluminal (https://superluminal.eu/), but it's closed source/paid - wolfpld (the Tracy author) is responsive and there's a decent set of contributors so switching to a black box on a part of the engineering process that is designed to avoid black boxes isn't very enticing. It also is sketchy/misleading about saying things like "Superluminal is the only sampling profiler that displays the profiling data in a visual UI." which is a big turn-off for someone who's been using/building tools like that for decades :)

    • ModernMechDec 2024

      Per the article's "Using the right profiling tools", I have gone through a similar profiling journey in Rust and found this tool very useful: https://superluminal.eu/rust/

      Works on Windows, has a great GUI, shows pretty flame charts, really pleasant to use. Costs money but worth it.

    • maccardDec 2023

      If you're working with ETW traces, SuperLuminal [0] (no affiliation just a happy customer) is leaps and bounds ahead of the built-in ETW viewer.

      [0] https://superluminal.eu/

    • forrestthewoodsJul 2024

      > I can see the problem with Tracy, but need to add more profiling scopes to narrow it down.

      If you can run on Windows try Superluminal.

      https://superluminal.eu/

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