Optimizing GNOME Software
Software can be optimized in many ways: for speed, program size, or memory use. This section contains guides and tutorials for optimizing your software.
- A Quick Introduction to Optimizing GNOME Programs
- An introduction to optimization, what our goals are for optimizing GNOME and some basic tips and tricks.
- Disk Seeks Considered Harmful
- A plea from Rob Love to avoid using many small files.
- Using Massif for Profiling Memory Use in GNOME Software
- This article describes how to use the Massif heap profiler with GNOME applications. We describe how to invoke, interpret, and act on the output of Massif. The Same GNOME game is used as an example.
