Using Valgrind for performance profiling

[Dan Meltzer]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Andreas Mützel <andreas.muetzel at gmx.net> wrote:
>> i could have a look at these things, are there any special functions of amarok
>> you want me to profile?
>> Else i will poke around a bit and see if there are any interesting findings.
>
> Generally I'm not aware of any hotspots that are performing
> particularly badly in current Amarok 2. So I would recommend to just
> "poke around" a bit and see if you can spot anything out of the
> regular.
>
> For instance it could be interesting to see where we spend most of the
> time during startup and shutdown.

We already have stuff to profile startup in
supplimentary_scripts/performance that would probably be a better
start if that is what you want to profile.  It even generates pretty
pictures to look at.
>
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