[Shotwell] shotwell with 100k pics: somewhere between quite fast and too slow

[oliver]

Hi Andreas,

I have not to add "-X -pg" in VALAFLAGS.
This does not really provide the "-pg" to the C-compiler.

Instead it must be used the following:
  "-pg" added to VALA_CFLAGS


Ciao,
   Oliver

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:57:35PM +0200, Andreas Brauchli wrote:
> hi oliver
> 
> what you want is probably not a debug version but a 
> profilable version. btw, it looks like the debug flag (-g) is passed by
> default - at least if the packager didn't turn it off.
> 
> for profiling you can use gprof to do the job by passing -X -pg to valac
> (VALAFLAGS in Makefile)
> 
> however if you're not comfortable with c programming i would not advise
> you to do so.. not that you could break much but it could be
> frustrating ;) at least you'd need to read up on how to use gprof
> 
> cheers and best of luck
> andreas
> 
> On Sam, 2011-08-13 at 13:33 +0200, oliver wrote:
> > If it is possible to create a gdb-/debugging-version
> > of shotwell, and if this is easy by just adding
> > a switch to one makefile, I could try the same
> > procedure again, so that the bottleneck maybe
> > can be identified.
> > 
> > Is there an easy way for this?
> > 
> > How would I make a debugging version from shotwell?
> > 
> > (Or are those issues already addressed by the shotwell team?
> >  Or is being able to handle about 100k pics not in the focus
> >  of the shotwell team?)
> > 
> > 
> > Ciao,
> >    Oliver
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