Re: Floating point in pango

["Kalle Vahlman" <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

28 Jul 2006 04:08:30 +0200, Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>:
> Matthew Allum <mallum openedhand com> writes:
>
> > But I think the difference here is, and a point you've very well made,
> > is sysprof is designed for desktop type hardware - thats not (usually)
> > ARM. On ARM we *need* features that oprofile gives us like use of
> > hardware foo to lower overhead and the data collection separation.
> > Porting sysprof to ARM as to be useful would likely break your original
> > design goals.
>
> I wouldn't say that sysprof is designed for desktop type _hardware_,
> as much as it is designed for desktop developers. After all, an ARM of
> today is as powerful as a desktop not that many years ago, and sysprof
> actually goes to quite some length to limit the amount of CPU and
> memory it uses.

Yes, it (the module) indeed seems to work just fine on ARM. When I get
the symbol resolving working too I'll be able to tell if the overhead
is meaningful or not.

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