Re: Measuring startup time

[Isak Savo <isak savo gmail com>]

2005/12/19, Milen Dzhumerov <gamehack 1nsp1r3d co uk>:
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> Hi all,
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> I wanted to ask what's the appropriate way to measure the startup time
> of an application? Should I use clock() and comment out gtkmain()
> assuming that it doesn't have a high overhead and only starts the
> mainloop? Or some other technique?

Use GLibs GTimer[1] functions for this. You can then call
g_timer_elapsed() at pre-defined locations in the code. If you want to
get the time when the app is completely finished loading, you can add
an idle handler to the main loop - if I'm not completely wrong, it
will be called as soon as GTK has finished all its stuff.

Isak

[1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Timers.html