I need *your* benchmarking help!

[Jeff Mitchell]

Aran Cox wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM, 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.)
> 
> Timing with a stopwatch is pretty tough considering how long it takes
> for a scan on my system.  I'd have to sit and stare at the screen for
> quite a while!  It would be easier for me if there was a debug
> statement that showed the elapsed time, or two debug statements (at
> the start and finish, obviously) that just print time() so I can
> subtract the two.  I'll look at adding something if you don't :)
> 
> Cheers and thanks for the work!

Sure, you can do this:

First, git pull again, I just removed some spammy debug  :-)

Then, in the debug log, look for the following line:

END__: virtual void XmlParseJob::run()

There will be a number after it -- that number will serve well for
comparison.

Thanks!

--Jeff



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