Yesterday my Profiling 101 workshop took place at this years Akademy in Brno. The room was packed and I got good feedback, so I hope you all learned something new :)
During my workshop, I showed you how to improve the performance of a word-count application which also creates a word histogram and finds the longest word of a file. I tried to put as many performance bottlenecks as possible into the original code base, which you can find here:
git clone git@git.kde.org:scratch/mwolff/akademy-2014.git
Instead of uploading my useless slides full of meme images, instead I’m now pushing my optimized code branch. I urge everyone to review the commits I did and read the individual commit messages ( Note : read this log from bottom to top). There are many useful tips and tricks in there. I furthermore plan to create a techbase article with the most important notes on how to use profilers for a given job. I’ll write another blog post once I’m done with that.
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Hello all!
Kevin just announced it on the mailing list, the CI is still shaking it’s head, and we are all very curious about the coming weeks: KDevelop’s master branches are now depending on KF5!
For more information, see: https://www.kdevelop.org/frameworks/kdevelop-master-now-depends-kde-fram…
Cheers, happy hacking and hope to see some more patches :)
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Hey all,
just a quick announcement: KDevelop 4.7.0 Beta 1 was released! Head over to the announcement on the KDevelop website to read more:
https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-471-beta1-released
Cheers, see you soon with a KDevelop 4.7.0 stable release :)
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Hey all,
I’m happy to announce the availability of two new betas: Massif-Visualizer 0.4 Beta 1 and KGraphViewer 2.2 Beta 1!
Download
If you want to test this release, you can download the tarballs from the KDE mirrors:
Download Massif-Visualizer 0.4 Beta 1
md5 sum: 2953089078bd2170ad9d2d583c7c8b95 massif-visualizer-0.3.90.tar.xz
sha1 sum: 6d76134b1b41b887ba595a0585f941d22e066b76 massif-visualizer-0.3.90.tar.xz
sha256 sum: 9940fa90137ca5eef08b9ec220825fadbf03db423a670a2c7fe3edab271d9922 massif-visualizer-0.3.90.tar.xz
Download KGraphViewer 2.2 Beta 1
md5 sum: b3a18cbaf661d1cf186b3a3674c31186 kgraphviewer-2.1.90.tar.xz
sha1 sum: 4f0cb86f01eb9725191a79291cbd75061682ca69 kgraphviewer-2.1.90.tar.xz
sha256 sum: 1ae74c1a51e252e88afb7a3d7864fc1bc6326c191ad36c89cc7fab7e8a96f08f kgraphviewer-2.1.90.tar.xz
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Hey everyone!
I’ve started my internship at KDAB this week, it’s great fun so far! Though I spent most of my time this week on Bertjans KDevelop plugin, I couldn’t resist on a bit of Kate hacking:
steveire is experimenting with QML so I couldn’t stop but notice that there is no highlighting for it in Kate. Well, there was none ;-) Now you get pretty colors, rejoice!
Note: Since QML is basically JSON with some added sugar, I reused the existing JavaScript highlighter and improved it. Hence you get imrpoved JSON and member highlighting in plain.js as well. Enjoy!
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Time flies… The extremely productive hack sprint at the friendly Blue Systems office in Barcelona is over for more than a week. I haven’t had time to blog about the last days yet which I hereby make good for!
I spent a lot of time at the sprint polishing the KDevelop Clang plugin. A up-to-now semi-secretly developed language plugin based on clang which will replace our current C++ language support in KDevelop in the long-run.
Code completion ofstd::string in a std::vector.
Showing a clang-generated warning inside the editor.
Nested clang diagnostics with browsing support.
KDevelop’s current C++ plugin
But a bit of history first: KDevelop’s current C++ language plugin can pull off what it does by essentially implementing (parts of) the C++ standard. We have our own C++ parser, we have our own implementation of the C++ template mechanism, we have our own share of “compiler bugs”, …. It should not surprise anyone that this is a maintenance nightmare. And indeed, with C++11 and the wealth of changes it came with our language simply fails in many areas. The current codebase is big (~55k sloc) and adding support for complicated features such as variadic templates or constexpr is extremely hard and fragile. So instead of doing that, my colleague Olivier JG started looking into using clang of LLVM fame instead. It promises an API for third-party tools to steer a C/C++/Objective-C compiler to their needs. Its the magic bullet which we waited for, and which did not exist back when KDevelop 4.0 was started initially.
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Hey all! Greetings from the joint Kate/KDevelop sprint at the Blue Systems office in Barcelona!
I only arrived yesterday but already I have great news for you: After months of work I finally merged the sharedurls branches into master for KDevelop/KDevplatform etc. pp. There I worked on a optimization in our handling of file paths.
The status quo up until know was the following: When importing a folder as a project in KDevelop, we filled a model with every file and folder in the project (recursively). For every item we also stored its path as a KUrl to the potentially remote location. KUrl and QUrl are awesome when you have to work with paths and urls, but as soon as you store potentially thousands of them at the same time it becomes quite inefficient. Assume e.g. you open /foo/bar/blub/ which contains /foo/bar/blub/bla.h. When you use KUrl/QUrl to store these paths, you cannot share any memory between the two, as internally basically a QString is used. Thus, when you import deep folder trees or folders with many files, you’ll waste a lot of memory for common sub-paths. Furthermore, due to the amount of allocations required, reading the tree is pretty slow.
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Holy moly yet another KDevelop release - but this time a big one! Go and get 4.6.0 while it’s fresh and read the full announcement on the KDevelop website:
http://kdevelop.org/46/kdevelop-460-final-released
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Hey all,
since some people asked me: The slides to my extended Apps on Speed talk from this year’s Qt DevDays Berlin are available for download. If you are interested, get them here: http://devdays.kdab.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/qt-dd-2013-apps-on-sp…
I hope you liked that talk. I certainly had fun presenting it and discussing the contents with various attendees later on. I have now quite some ideas on how to extend the talk even further.
The slides of the other presentations are also available. Stay tuned for the video recordings of DevDays Berlin, I’m sure they will be accessible soonish :)
Edit: The video is now available! Enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5EPt50Kgmc
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Hey all,
I just announced KDevelop 4.6 Beta 1 on the KDevelop website. Go read the announcement and test the hell out of this release :) I’m pretty confident that its already a very solid release though!
Cheers, happy hacking!
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