On Tue, 1 May 2001, Christoph Reichenbach wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:09:24AM -0700, Matt wrote:
> > _gfxwop_visual_draw (1189 calls @ 2.8ms/call)
>
> This one does a full widget tree traveral and draws all changes. There is
> little that can be done to improve it, I'm afraid.
What kind of tree is it? If it's possible to go to a balanced tree
structure (red-black, for instance) and re-balance every so often, it
might be worth it.
> > To reproduce my results, go get kprof (http://kprof.sourceforge.net, needs
> > KDE and qt installed).
>
> Thanks, but this stuff is C++, which essentially means I'd have to compile Qt,
> the KDE base libraries and everything else kprof needs by hand (using Compaq's
> cxx compiler), since the versions shipped in Debian are built with gcc and,
> therefore, don't work.
>
> I've installed it on my IA32 box, though (remote displaying will probably alter
> the results somewhat).
Try using something other than gprof if you can. It can't help us find the
bottlenecks in the soundserver since it doesn't follow child
threads/processes. This one is also supported by kprof and seems much
better:
http://www710.univ-lyon1.fr/~yperret/fnccheck/profiler.html
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