Re: [Gnash-dev] GSoC - Optimizing the IO Pipeline for AV Data Update

[John Gilmore]

> Makes sense. Going through Gnash and identifying these bottlenecks
> sounds like a big task, though. If finding these bugs prove easy, I
> could attempt to fix them separately from my main project. However, I
> don't want to apply for a project that could easily prove very big, and
> that I don't currently understand fully. The project does sounds interesting, 
> though.

Finding them is easy -- you run gnash in normal life, and watch
for your CPU meter to peg.  Then attach a debugger to it and see
what it's doing.

Fixing them is more work, requiring understanding how the various
tasks and libraries interact.

        John