Why does my program run way faster when I enable profiling?

Question

I have a program that\'s running pretty slowly (takes like 20 seconds even on release) so, wanting to fix it, I tried to use Visual Studio\'s built in profiler. However, whe

Answer 1

It could be due to few optimizations not being performed by the compiler when you run it in profiling mode. So, I suggest you check the parameters being passed and check the compiler documentation.