I need *your* benchmarking help!

[Eelko Berkenpies]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:37:57 -0400, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org>
wrote:
> 1) Update master and build. Open Amarok and run two full rescans
> (Settings->Collection->Fully Rescan Collection). So click, let it run
> until the progress bar reaches 100%, then click again. The second time,
> time it with a stopwatch or some such thing. (The reason it's done twice
> is so that the effects of disk caching can be reasonably ignored between
> this version and the new one.)

The scan took somewhere around 12 seconds on the second scan. This is less
than the initial 1 or 2 minutes I thought it would take. It takes that long
when I wipe my database (which makes it an initial scan).

> 2) Add my clone as a remote (use Google if you need help). My clone is
> at git://gitorious.org/~jefferai/amarok/jefferai-work.git and the branch
> you want is called "uidhash". Build it.
> 
> 3) Run two full rescans again, timing the second one.

The scan literally took half the time and finished in 6-7 seconds. I was
not able to time it any closer than this because I couldn't find a
stopwatch of some sort (I used my watch). On a side note, processing an
initial scan seems to be a little bit faster with this build. I don't if
that's possible and / or if that's interesting? 
 
> 4) Close Amarok and re-open it.*
> 
> 5) If you see any oddities (that aren't fixed by switching back to
> master and rebuilding, then running a full rescan, then closing and
> opening Amarok -- yes, all those steps) please be sure to report them
> along with your benchmark results.

A problem I have discovered is that some leafs don't want to fold out in
the collection browser using your build. Does that make sense? What I mean
is when I try to unfold an album to see it's content it will display a "-"
in front of the album but it's content will not appear. Works fine in GIT
master on the same album(s).

I hope this helps you out. :)

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
Eelko Berkenpies