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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 16/09/2026

Check out this great post by @clayjohn.bsky.social where he uses Superluminal to investigate unexpected performance issues in Godot, taking one case from 28 to 83 FPS and cutting 11 seconds from another. Nice!

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 29/06/2026

Today is a big day! We're shipping two major and highly requested updates to Superluminal: support for agentic profiling and the Linux open beta. Heck, there's even a new website! Read on... 👇

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 13/05/2026

Today is a beautiful day for updates! On the Stable channel: rolling up a large number of features, perf optimizations, and QoL changes made over the past months On the Insider channel: support for our instrumentation API has been implemented on PS4 & 5! Go check it out!

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 17/03/2026

New article! This time, it's a tale about when one of our customers reported full system freezes on Linux. Join Ritesh on his in-depth dive into the depths of the Linux kernel, uncovering bugs in eBPF spinlocks that lead to changes in the kernel:

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 19/02/2026

We've just released a new Insider update with some much-requested features, like being able to specify env vars when running, auth support for symbol servers, and proper progress reporting for symbol downloads. And of course, many fixes & QoL improvements. Go check it out!

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 05/01/2026

New year, new post! Jelle wrote an article about how we efficiently ingest gigabytes of unsorted data in sorted order. It's got fancy animations about our algorithm, so there's really no excuse not to take a peek. Happy New Year! superluminal.eu/efficiently-...

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Efficiently sorting gigabytes: the Deferred Merge Sort - Superluminal %

The problem One of the biggest challenges in building Superluminal is scalability. No matter how large a capture file is, it shouldn’t affect framerate, memory usage, or lookup times. This constraint ...

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 11/12/2025

Check out this new article by Ritesh, in which profiling the in-development Linux version of Superluminal led to finding and fixing a performance issue in the Linux kernel👇

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 01/12/2025

Ever wondered how to store millions of call stacks efficiently? So did we. Many times. Check out this new article by Jelle about designing a data structure to efficiently compress and store large amounts of call stack data! superluminal.eu/compressing-...

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Compressing callstacks: a bitpacked DAG powered by a keyless hashmap - Superluminal %

In Superluminal we need to store potentially millions of callstacks very efficiently. This article describes how we went from naive storage taking up gigabytes of memory in the worst case, to a very c...

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Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma @rovarma.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I've been wanting to start a blog for a while, and finally decided to bite the bullet. The first article of hopefully many more to come is about, you guessed it, profiling & optimization. RTs appreciated! rovarma.com/articles/opt...

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Optimizing libdwarf .eh_frame enumeration | Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma

For the Linux version of Superluminal we rely on unwind information stored in the .eh_frame section in a binary to perform stack unwinding. We’ll go over optimizations we made to libdwarf that greatly...

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Lars Thießen @larstofus.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My new blog post is there, and it's a bit different from usual: Fixing stutters in your own code is hard enough, but this time I try to fix performance issues in a closed-source game. No source code or debug symbols, but a lot of guesswork. larstofus.com/2025/07/27/p... #gamedev #Trackmania

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Profiling without Source code – how I diagnosed Trackmania stuttering

A very common side effect of working as a programmer is the constant frustration of not having source code access to all the software you use. Bugs, problems or missing features in your own work ca…

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 19/05/2025

We've just released a new update with many fixes and QoL improvements, including the much-requested support for using the horizontal mouse wheel to navigate the timeline. Go check it out!

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Jack Knobel @jackknobel.com · 05/04/2025

Another successful week using @superluminal.eu to catch code bugs remotely Used their command line tool to capture an ETW trace on a problematic build machine Opened the trace, found the issue, deployed the one line fix *and* discovered AV was configured wrong on builders Perfect 👌🏼

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 13/01/2025

Responses much appreciated!

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Morten Vassvik @vassvik.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Odin bindings for the great @superluminal.eu's instrumentation API: github.com/vassvik/odin...

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 09/01/2025

We've just released our first update of the new year with a lot of perf and quality-of-life changes on the Insider channel. Go check it out, and happy new year!

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Rubén Garat @rgarat.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I am loving your series of profiling adventures, just tried to reserialize everything in a project after upgrading to unity 6, and 4 hours later I tried to take a look at why it could be this slow. It seems to just be doing a ton of repeated work per asset instead of trying to batch stuff.

Profiling with Superluminal of an full reserialization in unity6

Profiling with Superluminal of an full reserialization in unity6 showing the secuence of assets being processed

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Sebastian Schöner @sschoener.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I am trying to get to the old context menu in the explorer in Windows 11. When you have the new menu open, you have to click "Show more options." This reliably freezes for 20s. Why? Let's take a look in @superluminal.eu.

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Sebastian Schöner @sschoener.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A tech artist came to me and said "whenever we touch anything in a Unity shader graph, the editor stalls. It's painfully annoying." And yes, any meaningful change to the graph stalls the editor. Sometimes a bit, sometimes long. (This is a long thread. You can find it in text form on my blog.)

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Improving Unity's shader graph

Hey! You can find me on Mastodon, Bluesky, or Twitter! A tech artist came to me and said “whenever we touch anything in a Unity’s shader graph, the editor stalls. It’s painfully annoying.” And yes, an...

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Sebastian Schöner @sschoener.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I want to talk about why Unity C# code is different. This is about editor performance, with nullable types as an example. There's some JSON parsing happening, which someone wants faster. (It has to be a JSON parser.)

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Sebastian Schöner @sschoener.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Inspired by some recent work build times, I was looking at Unity's "MegaCity Metro" sample in Unity 6. I got curious about at its build times. In particular for incremental builds (fancy speak for "I pressed the build button repeatedly but only made minimal changes inbetween.")

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Sebastian Schöner @sschoener.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

In today's episode of "What am exactly I waiting for here?" I waited for Visual Studio to open 477 projects in a Unity Engine generated solution. It took > 15min. Did I attach a profiler? Why of course I did, because I ran out of patience and Superluminal is my only friend.

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Superluminal @superluminal.eu · 24/10/2024

Hello, world! This is the official account for Superluminal, a user-friendly CPU profiler for C/C++, Rust & .NET on Windows, Xbox and PlayStation. Follow us to get updates on new releases and general news about our profiler. And of course, if you haven't already, go try it out! superluminal.eu

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The new industry-standard profiler for C/C++ and Rust on Windows, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Trusted by AAA game developers all over the world.

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