[java-gnome-hackers] Profiling to improve performance

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

Some of you may be aware that we've used the YourKit Java Profiler in
the past to help improve the performance of the java-gnome user
interface library.

YourKit is proprietary software, but they offer complimentary licences
to developers working on open source software as one of they ways they
give back to the community. I hadn't profiled java-gnome in some time,
and so recently requested a renewed licence for their current release,
version 9.5.

I was pleasantly surprised when Vladimir not only responded
affirmatively, but also send me a licence which anyone actively
contributing to the project could use!

So if you have been working on java-gnome recently (Bazaar knows who you
are, and thence so does Ohloh [1] :)) or are expecting to in the weeks,
months, and years to come, then don't hesitate to contact me on IRC and
I'll pass you the licence key & some tips for using it effectively.

Obviously no one uses a UI library in isolation, but I should think if
you're hacking on your own application built on top of java-gnome then
profiling that app will likely turn up information about java-gnome as
well which will hopefully benefit us all. So if you're not actively
contributing to java-gnome itself but are heavily using it without
really telling me, I'd also welcome hearing from you; profiling is best
when done with real-world loads.

Thanks again to YourKit for their support!

AfC
Sydney

[1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/java-gnome/contributors

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Andrew Frederick Cowie
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