hi,

Chris Rorvick schrieb:
> Stefan Kost wrote:
>  > This is most likely caused by cairo. You should also see a bit less
>  > CPU usage in 2.12 compared to 2.10 (or more precise newer cairo should
>  > perform a bit better).
> 
> For some reason, this happens to be one of two libraries that I'm
> statically linking in.  I wasn't seeing a lot of time spent in it when
> looking at the gprof report.
> 
>> I would suggest to use a sampling profiler, like oprofile, sysprof,
>  > but all those are linux profilers (they need a kernel module). But I
>  > am sure there a sampling profilers for solaris too. The advantage is
>  > that you don't need to recompile your apps (given you have debug
>  > symbols alreday) and it works with shared libs too.
> 
> I figured out that Sun's dtrace tool allows me to basically script a
> sampling profiler just as you describe.  Very cool program.  My program
> is spending more than 50% of its userland time executing code in glib,
> and a vast majority of that is split evenly between two functions:
> g_slist_find() and g_slist_remove_all().
> 
> I'm going to have to do some more work to figure out the context in
> which these functions are being invoked, but I'm making progress!  :)
>
If this is infact your problem, then I wonder how the gtk version can cause a
difference here. I don't belive there is a huge increase of such calls in newer
gtk-versions. Would be good it you can get backtraces.

Stefan

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Rorvick
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