--On January 25, 2014 10:55:10 PM -0800 John Ralls <[email protected]>
wrote:
<MacPorts/Fink Rant Deleted>. Yeah, I'm familiar with MacPorts. I
don't like it. I've never tried Homebrew, mostly because I'm in the
"eat your own dogfood" camp, and gtk-osx is that dogfood.
I'm no big fan of MacPorts, it's just what I happen to use. I figure
it's easier than installing all that stuff by hand. I used to use
Fink, but switched for reasons I can't recall. I've never tried
Homebrew either.
<snip>
I do use XCode to debug Gnucash. I don't build it there, but it
works fine as a GUI for the debugger. Somewhat to my surprise, lldb
is happy to debug code produced by gcc.
On the subject of Xcode, you committed a change to .gitignore a few
weeks ago to exclude .xcodeproj. Would you mind sharing the
.xcodeproj? I'd suggest putting it in the repo but I'm not sure that
they're static enough for that to work well. I'm particularly
interested in doing some profiling: I've noticed that GnuCash 2.6.0
stalls a lot and I want to know why. That's easier to do directly in
Xcode than doing a -prof build and then running the Instruments part
of Xcode on the result.
I've thought about checking that in, but I would need to clean it up
first. I'll see if I can do that and check it in. It's fairly static,
there is a separate file that contains user local settings and state
information.
I've noticed the stalls too. All I can add to that is that when it
stalls, Gnucash is getting lots of page faults. This makes me think of
some sort of garbage collection that is touching lots of memory. I've
thought of just a brute force approach of interrupting it during one of
these stalls to see what it's doing. Who knows, I might learn
something.
Mike
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