Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up very early, to the Nuffield to get wrenched
about by the Urologist. Nice room; like an hotel - set too
playing with Soren's
sysprof, profiling Thomas's slow spreadsheet. Re-built
everything that might look slow with debugging symbols.
- Much chart hacking - turns out 80+% of the time
is creating / rendering / line breaking, measuring, noticing
it overlaps the last-one and deleting a Row label - per point.
Knocked up a 40% speedup in a couple of lines, before trying
to come up with a more intelligent version.
- Interrupted by surgery - very pleasant anaethasist,
almost painless drip thing inserted - wonderful these flexible
tube things in the vein. By the time the cold (room temperature)
drug got mostly up the arm - knew no hard to believe it had
all got done an hour or two later.
- With a little cunning got ChartAxis::DrawGrids down
to 6% of the profile from 41%, unfortunately now
ChartModel::CalcMaxDescrSize burns 72% of the time. Kludged that,
factor of 5 faster: although still too slow; profile flattening;
sysprof: really nice.
- Visit from the lovely wife, babes and brother -
good stuff. Un-nerving fire-alarm. Wrote a tool to break-down
OO.o object size by source directory; interesting.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
