If you’re a developer rocking an Apple Silicon Mac and writing in Zig, congratulations - you’ve chosen the scenic route through the desert of profiling tools. It’s just you, your code, and a tumbleweed named Apple Instruments. But don’t worry - we’ll try to find some oases.
Okay, it’s not that bad, but we’re far away from the rich ecosystem of profiling tools available on Linux.
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I have limited experience using low-level languages, so this article doesn’t provide a deep dive into profiling, but rather serves as an entry point to the world of profiling.

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Explores profiling options for Zig developers on Apple Silicon Macs, covering four main tools: Samply for sampling profiling with Firefox Profiler UI, poop for hardware counter comparisons, Tracy for instrumentation profiling (with limited callstack support), and Apple Instruments. The article explains profiling types (statistical vs instrumentation), discusses Apple's profiling interfaces (Mach, DTrace, kperf), and provides installation and usage instructions for each tool. While the ecosystem is more limited than Linux, these tools offer viable solutions for performance analysis on Apple Silicon.

Zig profiling on Apple Silicon