Abstract: Techniques are provided for assisting programmers of electronics components and systems, as well as software components and systems, assess the effectiveness of their designs. Various embodiments provide improved processes for providing statistical feedback to programmers concerning performance features of a system or component they are designing. The techniques provide for faster generation and more effective communication of feedback to the programmer. Such techniques include automatically launching a process for generating such feedback either at periodic intervals or in response to a predefined event. Additionally, techniques are provided for providing the feedback to the programmer in a same working environment in which the programmer is editing the program file, and for displaying the feedback in a format that is more useful to the programmer.