Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: zlib vs gzip

[Zack Weinberg]

On Oct 31, 2007 8:30 AM, Jack Lloyd <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:00:11AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > I'd like to point out that the #1 easiest thing anyone could do right
> > now to speed up monotone is get hand-optimized assembly SHA1
> > implementations into our copy of botan.  That one function shows up as
> > at least 7% of runtime every single time I profile it, doesn't matter
> > what the task is.
>
> Oh: and how can one go about properly profiling monotone?

I have been using either valgrind (calltree mode) or good
old-fashioned gprof (the latter works much better if you install
profiling versions of libc, libstdc++, and libz).

zw