Re: gobject-performance

[Wim Taymans <wim taymans gmail com>]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:00 +0200, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:16 AM, A. Walton <awalton gnome org> wrote:
> > Just have a small question on the subject: has anyone performed any
> > library or application benchmarks to see how much this means in the
> > real world and not just for the threaded microbenchmarks that you
> > wrote? The non-threaded speedups are pretty impressive on their own,
> > but it'd be nice to see what we could expect from e.g. GStreamer with
> > these changes applied.
> >
> The motivations for the patches have in all cases been real world
> problems, though I never explicitly benchmarked the effects
> afterwards, as I was happy just looking at my microbenchmarks.

Another real world problem is explained (with a quite detailed analysis
of the profiling info) in this bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585375

I hope we can get some feedback on how these optimisations improve
things.

Wim