increase performance of background parser

[Milian Wolff]

On Tuesday 01 November 2011 16:17:57 David Narvaez wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > As Sven already said increasing the number of threads won't help, it may
> > even hurt due to lock-contention (i.e. some of the threads need to wait
> > more/longer before they can continue).
> > 
> > The only things that can help speeding up kdevelop's parsing performance
> > significantly at the moment are: SSD to remove all IO-bottlenecks and
> > having a CPU thats running with >3GHz so the code can be executed
> > faster.
> > 
> > That being said, if you want to help find possible new bottlenecks in
> > the codebase (there are some known ones which are unfortunately hard to
> > fix) then run kdevelop in valgrinds callgrind and/or helgrind and upload
> > the resulting data somewhere for the devs to look at. Make sure to build
> > kdevelop in RelWithDebInfo mode so optimizations are applied but
> > debug-info is somewhat retained.
> > 
> > Andreas
> 
> I can confirm there's something weird going on with background
> parsers. I actually have to cancel it ASAP before getting to work, and
> I haven't had a chance to check exactly what happens there, but it
> tends to lock my computer up.

this sounds like a bug - investigate and report it!
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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