About Settings and Preferences (Performance Profiling)

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Settings control how Quantify runs programs, including how it performs instrumentation for native code (unmanaged) programs. For example, you can specify the instrumentation mode you want Quantify to use, the location of the cache directory, or the level of data that Quantify collects. You can also define settings for selective instrumentation.

Quantify provides two types of settings:

§    Default settings, that apply to all programs. You change default settings using the Default Settings dialog box. Quantify saves default settings in the Quantifyw_pure.ini file.

§          Executable settings, that apply only to a specific program. You change executable settings using the Settings for exename dialog box. Quantify saves executable settings in the Exename_pure.ini file.

Quantify uses the default settings, unless you override them with executable settings. You can view the settings that were in effect for a particular run using the Run Summary window.

Preferences control how Quantify presents its windows and data. During installation, Quantify sets default values for various settings and preferences.

You can change preferences using the Preferences dialog box. Quantify saves preferences in the Quantify.ini file.

Note:

§      For details about .ini file names and their locations, click images\shortcut.gif.

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