Measuring performance with instruments

Instruments is a performance measuring and testing tool provided by Apple in Xcode for the tracing and profiling of code. Instruments help in analyzing the performance of code. There are lot of instruments that can be used for checking performance issues, memory leaks, or other problems.

Once any issue gets identified, it becomes easy to rectify the issue. You can also see how much our game caches, and based on that, make a decision about the assets in the game.

You can access the instruments by navigating to Xcode | Open Developer Tool | Instruments. Then, you can choose the appropriate instrument to move with. It is better to have a look at the analysis in the initial phase of the development process, by this, you can easily understand which inclusion in the code was responsible for the error.

Instruments provide you with a list of trace templates. Trace templates are groups of preconfigured instruments. Let's discuss each of the trace templates in detail...