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by coldtea 1957 days ago
>I sincerely hope no one looks at the screenshot on that page and thinks "this is something that works well". This UI screams "I've been made that way because that was the easiest way in the tool I'm built with"

That's where you'd be wrong. Profilers traditionally have looked like this regardless of the tool/GUI lib/GUI paradigm they'd been made with.

It's the domain need (to show lots of information, graphs, timelines, stack trees, etc, to compare) that asks for this...
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jcelerier 1957 days ago
> Profilers traditionally have looked like this regardless of the tool/GUI lib/GUI paradigm they'd been made with.

the profiler I use most (hotspot) definitely looks much cleaner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ogEkQ-vKt4

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coldtea 1956 days ago
It's the same thing split in N tabs.

Not a distinction made because of immediate vs retained GUI.

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