Speed sensation

[Dirk Mueller]

On Die, 15 Apr 2003, Eray Ozkural wrote:

> /me wonders if it isn't possible to do something like running the whole code 
> during KDE startup with a profile build and see it as a single gprof output. 
> that will help spot the slower fellows.

the problem is not actually the time it runs but the time it does not run, 
because the kernel has something else to do (search files, read data, mmap 
libraries, resolve symbols). gprof does not compute this, therefore its 
totally useless as debugging method for this case. 


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Dirk