[PD-dev] Fwd: [MACTCL] Improving Application GUI Speed

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It seems there is a profiler for Tcl.  Has anyone ever tried it on Pd?

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> From: Revar Desmera <revarbat at gmail.com>
> Date: April 9, 2008 10:58:55 PM EDT
> To: TCL-Mac List <tcl-mac at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: Re: [MACTCL] Improving Application GUI Speed
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> If you download http://www.belfry.com/code/profile.tcl, and add a
> 'source profile.tcl' to the beginning of your program, when the
> program finishes, it'll dump a very detailed timing profile of your
> code to tclprof.txt, which you can use to determine what to optimize.
> The report format is very close to that of gprof.
>
> 	- Revar
>
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:10 AM, Randolf Schultz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> please help me getting my application up to speed on MacOSX/Aqua.
>> It runs fine on Linux/X11, Win32, and even MacOSX/X11. Only on
>> MacOSX/Aqua it crawls.
>>
>> Want to have a look first?
>> Go to
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/platformdownload.php? 
>> group_id=28460&sel_platform=4542
>>
>> (or http://www.ayam3d.org/download.html)
>>
>> get both variants (MacOSX/X11 and MacOSX/Aqua).
>>
>> Already the application startup is 2-3s (Linux/X11) vs. 10-15s
>> (MacOSX/Aqua); from then on the MacOSX version is unusably
>> slow, especially when drawing the scrollable GUIs for the object
>> properties (those are implemented as window in a canvas).
>> Another problem area are the pane widgets, that may be dragged
>> quite fine on X11, but on Aqua they do one hop every 1-2s (and
>> this is _without_ continuous re-packing the GUI, only dragging
>> the pane handle, which is a simple packed frame IIRC!).
>>
>> The Linux/X11 and MacOSX/Aqua variants were test-run on the
>> very same machine (MacMini-PPC)!
>>
>> So how would you proceed to tackle this problem?
>> Is there an easy way to profile such complex scenarios with Tcl/Tk?
>>
>> best regards,
>> Randolf
>>
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