It definitely did!

Unfortunately for me  I wouldn't have the first clue about coding or 
patching...my excuse is that i'm an INFP :-)

Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Che:
>
>> I ran a 172.541 second test, my top 3 were:
>> merge_linear_argb_ref (/usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0.3.0) with 56.039 seconds
>> resample_linear_argb_ref (/usr/lib/liboil-0.3.so.0.3.0) with 39.708 
>> seconds
>> yuv420p_to_rgb32 (/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpegcolorspace.so) 
>> with 19.324 seconds
>>
>> This seems to be in line with your suggestion that liboil and 
>> libgstffmpegcolorspace were the offenders ...I will add this detail 
>> to the bugs you have filed.
>
> Thanks.  It's good to report these issues upstream, so hopefully the
> maintainers of the modules can address the problems.  Also, since this
> issue seems to be affecting you, it might not be so hard to add some
> hardware acceleration yourself, then we could provide a patch to get
> upstream.  If you have programming skills and an interest in learning 
> about
> this, let me know offline and we can get you in touch with the right 
> people
> at Sun who could help.
>
>> Many thanks for your guidance, I can categorically say that this 
>> exercise has taught me something :)
>
> Great.  I hope it taught you how easy it is to generate professional
> performance analysis reports on Solaris.  On Solaris, this just works 
> out of
> the box pretty easily as you notice, while on Linux using tools like
> valgrind an end-user probably would never be able to figure out how to
> generate a performance report like this.
>
> Brian
>


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