The whole Intel Compiler stack is really useful from MKL for math, to VTune, to TBB if you're doing any heavy numerical analysis. It runs about as much as Visua

The whole Intel Compiler stack is really useful from MKL for math, to VTune, to TBB if you're doing any heavy numerical analysis. It runs about as much as Visual Studio for the professional edition (under a $1k US) which is more than reasonable for what you get. We use Coverity for static analysis, Kcachegrind and ICC in concert in C++ and it's a brilliant stack. Intel PIN(1) is free for everyone and is amazing too. There are a lot of open-source dynamic analysis tools coming out from unis (the UC's, Pitt, CMU in particular which are almost there but not quite). (1) https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pin-a-dynamic-binary-instrumentation-tool https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/pin-a-dynamic-bina...