Overviews: Performance Tuning
What is presented here should give you the concepts to help you increase your application's performance.
Performance tuning means several questions and issues:
What part of your code has to be fast?
Know the size and speed of your code.
Know the cost of new features.
Know the minimum work needed to accomplish the job.
Visual C++ has several tools that you can use to measure performance:
Windows NT Performance monitor
The Performance Tuning section covers the following topics: