Re: Minutes for Gnome 2 release team 2002-09-18



FYI

>   In August there was some discussion on the mailing lists about
>   profiling and performance. Given the colossal improvements to
>   some applications between Gnome 1.4 and 2.0 which such profiling
>   achieved, we like this subject. 
>   
>   Sun are looking at this internally: they have been looking at
>   "heap size" (I think :)) and at dependencies. They expect to have 
>   something postable next week. Jody would be very interested
>   to see quantify results on Gnome apps. 

Actually we will likely be using the Forte compiler's Performance
Analyzer tools for this work.  It is rather more convenient than
Quantify since the Forte compiler's tools generate performance and
memory leak reports without having to compile code in any special
way or with special arguments, etc.

Just so you know that the performance reports will likely look slightly
different than the reports that Quantify generates.  Though the data is
basically the same, so those people who are familiar at looking at
Quantify reports will pick up the new format quickly.

I have written a 3-page document which describes how the Forte 
performance tools work and what sort of reports it generates.  Since
I'm sure some performance reports will be shared with the community,
it might be useful to have this reference.

Brian

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