Optimizing with Apple's Shark Developer's Tool--Big Payoff, Small Effort

Developers who spend a few hours with the Shark performance tool on Mac OS X may be able to realize significant performance improvements in their application. Shark is one of the free developer tools that come with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, and one of the most valuable for developers. This article guides the reader through the sampling of a real application with Shark, and shows how to improve performance--as much as 2 or 3 times or more--in a few hours by using the information provided by the Shark tool.