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Tracing and Performance Analysis

The tracing and profiling feature introduced with PowerBuilder 6.0 allows you to capture your PowerBuilder application's trace information at run time and analyze the captured information. The data that you can capture about your PowerBuilder application includes:

Object creation and destruction
Routine (event or function) entry/exit
Routine line hits
System errors
Garbage collection
Embedded SQL
User defined activities such as error & status messages

Once you collect the trace information in a file, you can analyze the tracing data using either the Profiler and Trace tools (they were shipped together as a separate apps in v6.0) or objects and functions that were introduced in PowerBuilder 6.0 for this purpose. Tracing and performance analysis tools objects and APIs are available for enterprise PowerBuilder edition only.
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