Re: performance control?

[Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov>]

On Nov 7, 2006, at 9:41 AM, spam freaklamarsch de wrote:
> if you are using gcc for compiling your application you can use the  
> -gp flag. This causes the compiled application to produce profiler  
> data which can be analyzed with gprof. (Or search for a gprof GUI)

Minor correction: it's -pg, not -gp.

Now, I believe Gimp is doing a bunch of memory-caching thing using  
tiles and such, not sure how it's doing it.  There is, however, a  
project to build a library for doing Gimp-style manipulations -  
perhaps that would be helpful to the OP's cause.

- Michael