Release v0.6 · dfeneyrou/palanteer

This is a feature delivery release

Compared to the previous release, the main added changes are:

Feature (global): efficient printf-like logging (supersedes markers).
- nanosecond logging performance
- format arguments can be searched and graphed
Feature in the viewer: some exports have been added
Important fix: instrumentation crash under stress
Important fix: correctness of multi-resolution graphs

Behavior change / compatibility break

Viewer: the marker window has been replaced with the log window, which generalizes markers and provides more features
Viewer: old stored records will not be readable anymore (incompatibility due to somes changes for the logs)
Instrumentation: old viewers are not compatible, due to transport header change.
Instrumentation: plMarker APIs are deprecated.
- they are currently wrapped on plLogWarn function and will be removed soon

Global: efficient printf-like logging
- nanosecond logging performance
- format arguments can be searched and graphed
- a comparison with Nanolog and spdlog is provided
Viewer: some exports available
- anywhere with ctrl-P for screen capture
- in main menu bar for Chrome Trace Format (JSON)
- in text and log windows for a text export
- in plot windows for CSV export

C++ instru: remove a critical flaw in the event collection mechanism which could lead to a crash under stress (thanks @gpascualg for the report with details)
Python instru: the filename of the exception source is now provided in the log text, along with the line number
Viewer: reworked the computation of the multi-resolution of the graphs. Previous version was broken and provided poor visual results
Viewer: fix the profiling applied always on a particular thread, for threads without provided names (thanks @jojado8408 for reporting)
Code cleaning: fix "issues" highlighted by the tool include-what-you-use
Code cleaning: fix "issues" highlighted by the static analysis tool CodeChecker
Code cleaning: remove warnings when compiling under Windows with the flag /W4 /permissive- (thanks @gpascualg and @BrodyHiggerson)