Re: [STUMP] profiling StumpWM

[Shawn Betts]

Hi Eric,

I've found the same thing with SBCL, which is why I switched to clisp.
If you can discover the issue, that would be amazing. This was all
years ago when 256M of ram was "enough". I sort of had a hunch that it
was paging related.

-Shawn

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm constantly getting laggy prefix-key detection (I thought it had
> gotten better, but it hadn't). I hit "C-t", and then the next keypress
> or two goes to the active window, not StumpWM. My girlfriend has already
> learned that when I send her "go" in Pidgin, I'm not actually telling
> her to go anywhere, I was just trying to switch to the other group.
>
> Plenty of other commands, particularly frame- and group-related
> commands, take a very user-visible chunk of time to execute. Resuming
> from hibernation, it can take seven or eight seconds before StumpWM
> starts seeing the prefix key.
>
> I'm quite sure that the problems aren't Stump-only problems, but
> something going on with the stump/SBCL on my machine (arch linux, as I
> mentioned), but I hope that profiling would help uncover those issues as
> well.
>
> E
>
> On 03/25/14 16:39 PM, Ivan Kanis wrote:
>> March, 25 at 11:50 Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>>> I still can't get rid of the idea that Stump is slow, both in reaction
>>> to input and in its own operations. I know very little about profiling,
>>> but I thought I'd take a whack at it and see if I could learn anything.
>>> So far I haven't learned very much.
>>
>> What kind of slowness? I use it at work and it's snappy.
>>
>> Ivan
>> --
>> You must no lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
>> drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
>>     -- Gandhi
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