On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote: > There has been a repeated advise to use Shark.app to measure before > optimisation. > So I decided to follow this advise. > > Started my app, then started Shark and selected my app, hit Start, did > something in my app, hit Stop. > > Got an impressive display which consisted (almost exclusively) of calls to > an "Unknown Library" with nice hex symbols followed by [unknown]. > Like: > 24.8% 88.5% Unknown Library 0x245c [unknown] > There was an exclamation sign on the left, which told me to use "Generate > Debug Symbols", so I looked for this in Xcode and saw that it was checked. > Also: no stripping was done. > > So: why is everybody so enthusiastic about Shark when it is absolutely > useless for me?
Is this a serious question? Really? I mean, the answer should be pretty obvious: it works fine for us. > My code resides in: "/Volumes/เม่น/Users/gerriet/Some/Path/to/Project". But > I simply cannot believe that nobody ever has told Shark that the days of > MacRoman are over and that there is something like Unicode. > (But then: it took AppleScript about 17 years to discover this, so who > knows?) > > Another possibility: "/Volumes/เม่น" is case sensitive. But why should > fishes get confused by cases? Instead of speculating, how about trying it on a "normal" path and seeing if it makes things better? > What can I do to avoid optimisation without measuring? Start by avoiding debugging without investigation. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
