Speed of Krita 2.4

[Cyrille Berger Skott]

On Sunday 31 July 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2011 Jul, JL VT wrote:
> > So I've been using the Debug build all this time, because I like to catch
> > asserts and have full backtracks, now I think I should compile a
> > KritaDevs build for that instead.
> > I'm not sure if the steady decline in speed that I've noticed in Debug
> > means anything for Krita Release, because I used to paint with a Debug
> > build just fine, and now it's almost unusable, but I'm going to find
> > out!.
> 
> I don't think I ever had a usable Krita in debug mode... Maybe it's worth
> it to make one big commit changing all our asserts into checks, if the
> assert statements really take a lot of performance.
How checks would be cheaper ?

> Apparently,
> distributations also regularly enable asserts when building, they seem to
> deliver something very close to our KritaDevs build type: debug symbols,
> asserts and optimizations.
Huh. That would be a very bad distributions, unless it is beta build, 
otherwise most of them are using "RelWithDebInfo", which is debug symbols, 
optimizations and debug messages, but without asserts.

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Cyrille Berger Skott