tracy ☆

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Description:
Real-time, nanosecond resolution frame profiler

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: profiler debugging performance graphics c++ real-time

Install: brew install tracy

About:
Tracy is a real-time frame profiler designed for detailed performance analysis of graphics applications like games and rendering engines. It provides nanosecond resolution data on CPU/GPU usage, memory allocation, and context switches. Its low-overhead architecture allows developers to diagnose bottlenecks without significantly impacting application performance.

Key Features:

Real-time frame profiling with nanosecond resolution
Low overhead instrumentation for C++ and other languages
Visualizes CPU/GPU usage, memory allocation, and context switches
Network-based remote profiling capabilities

Use Cases:

Identifying rendering bottlenecks in game engines
Optimizing multi-threaded application performance
Debugging memory leaks and allocation spikes

Alternatives:

RenderDoc – RenderDoc focuses on GPU frame debugging and inspection, whereas Tracy provides broader CPU/GPU performance profiling and system-wide analysis.
Intel VTune – VTune is a comprehensive CPU profiler for deep microarchitecture analysis, while Tracy offers a more lightweight, real-time visualization approach specifically tuned for graphics applications.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 15, 2025 9:16pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	fb2b7c3a
Sep 12, 2024 8:09pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	7f27c351