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| Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz) wrote Re: [Bug 940139] Re: [callgrind] compiz spends about 51% of its CPU time in CompRegion construction/destruction | #9 |
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> Good news. I have a working solution that drops the CompRegion overhead
> from 51% to 9% without any ABI breakage. That's an average reduction in
> compiz CPU usage of 42%!
>
> I will spend some more time testing and trying to improve it further
> before I propose it.
>
You are a hero, as usual :)
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> Title:
> [callgrind] compiz spends about 51% of its CPU time in CompRegion
> construction/
>
> Status in Compiz Core:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> I've only been profiling compiz with callgrind for a while, but the
> first thing that stands out as unusual is CompRegion. It appears to be
> such a heavily used class that compiz spends 51% of its CPU time
> constructing and destructing CompRegions...
>
> 1,173,358,129 = total execution time
> 223,504,551 = time in (and below) CompRegion:
> 218,441,501 = time in (and below) CompRegion:
> 158,941,179 = time in (and below) CompRegion:
>
> The primary reasons for this slowness appear to be:
> (a) XCreateRegion is slow.
> (b) new/delete is too slow to be used as frequently as CompRegion uses it.
>
> Instead of fixing CompRegion itself though, we should first look at
> the call graph and see if there are any callers that dominate.
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