Re: Measuring startup time

[Milen Dzhumerov <gamehack 1nsp1r3d co uk>]

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Hello,

Thanks for your reply. I've checked the GTimer API and that would do the
 work. Can you give me any pointers where can I find a doc/tutorial on
setting up an idle handle to the main loop?

Regards

Isak Savo wrote:
> 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
> 
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