Siggraph Presentation

This guide will be officially introduced at Siggraph 2023 - Houdini Hive on Wednesday, 9. of August 2023 at 11:00 AM PST.

Debugging & Performance Profiling

Usd ships with extensive debugging and profiling tools. You can inspect the code execution a various levels, which allows you to really pinpoint where the performance issues are.

When starting out these to two interfaces are of interest:

  • Debug Symbols: Enable logging of various API sections to stdout. Especially useful for plugins like asset resolvers or to see how DCCs handle Usd integration.
  • Performance Profiling: Usd has a powerful performance profiler, which you can also view with Google Chrome's Trace Viewer.