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Performance Love Day

Submitted by ebassi on Fri, 2005-10-28 07:58. GNOME
GNOME

On Sunday, October 30th, from 14:00 UTC until I fall asleep on the
keyboard, there will be a new GNOME Love Day, this time focused on GNOME
performance.

GNOME love day is a project to try to get developers become GNOME
hackers. There are lot of developers around who want to get involved
into GNOME development but they don't know how to do it. The idea of
GNOME love day is to get these developers joining #gnome-love on
irc.gnome.org as well as some current GNOME hackers, all together.

This love day will target performance: profiling applications, finding
bottle-necks and regressions, fixing filed bugs.

If you want to help making GNOME faster, go to the wiki page, pick a
task and join the #gnome-love channel on Sunday. But remember: every
day is a good day for giving GNOME some love.

No, it doesn't.

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-10-30 16:58.

If there are no clear bottlenecks, that is a good sign of fairly optimized code.

Nonsense. Your claims that "in Pango's case, there is still more work to be done"... how old is Pango now, how many major revision numbers has it been through. How long would it have stayed an appalling slug dragging the entire desktop down had Federico not pulled out profiler and pointed out that a cache here or there could give major speed ups? Same goes for the File Requester in GTK... I mean, FFS, did you read those reports.

Just because the GTK/Pango maintainers eliminated hotspots and made the code uniformly slow *doesn't* excuse why certain basic optimizations weren't done years ago.

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