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

oliver oliver at first.in-berlin.de
Sun Aug 14 15:53:25 UTC 2011


"-pg" must also be added in VALA_LDFLAGS




On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 04:28:38PM +0200, oliver wrote:
> 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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