Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:19:42PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
>But is it interesting to time the startup time of gnome-terminal? While
>that's perhaps an interesting benchmark as well, it has little
>correlation with questions like "how fast will my kernel compile
>go when run in gnome-terminal"?
But will cat end after all output has been displayed or before? (Due to
pipe buffers.)
I don't know. That is a good question. I don't know enough about the
gnome-terminal internals to say.
>If we are measuring wall clock time, timing the cat command seems
>to be pretty appropriate.
>
>If we are measuring CPU usage, then we need to find CPU usage from
>the terminal *and* from the X server, so we already need to use a
>tool like oprofile that can get a global view.
I agree.
Regards,
Luciano Rocha