Overview

• Function Decorator and Context Manager
• Annotation Types
  • Markers
  • Ranges
  • Counters
• Annotation Attributes
• Counters
  • Scalar Counters
  • Counter Groups
  • Avoiding Copies
  • Counter Semantics
  • Batched Samples
  • No-Value Samples
• Best practices
  • Give, don’t take
  • Isolate NVTX annotations in a library using a domain
  • Use categories to organize annotations
  • Reduce cache lookups and object allocations
  • Use payload for large data, don’t embed data in messages
  • Use counter annotations for values that change over time
  • Pass data in its native form
• Automatic function annotation
  • Command-line interface
  • The Profile class