[cairo-commit] [cairo-www] src/FAQ.mdwn

Carl Worth cworth at freedesktop.org
Fri Jun 12 14:36:55 PDT 2009


 src/FAQ.mdwn |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

New commits:
commit e00782ad173ba4cc026536035ac8df04fc694771
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Fri Jun 12 14:36:08 2009 -0700

    FAQ: Add a couple more section headings regarding traces.
    
    Otherwise we were talking about how to run cairo-perf-trace under
    the "how to generate a trace" section which just wasn't right.

diff --git a/src/FAQ.mdwn b/src/FAQ.mdwn
index 632db15..8fe950c 100644
--- a/src/FAQ.mdwn
+++ b/src/FAQ.mdwn
@@ -393,6 +393,8 @@ This eliminates the extra caller information from the trace, (which
 reduces overhead when replaying), and compresses the output,
 (decompress with the "lzma -cd").
 
+<h3>How to benchmark an existing trace:</h3>
+
 To benchmark the performance of a trace, run:
 
 	$ cairo-perf-trace application.trace
@@ -400,9 +402,15 @@ To benchmark the performance of a trace, run:
 which will replay the trace several times against multiple backends
 and report the time required for replay against each backend.
 
+<h3>What traces has the community collected?</h3>
+
 A compilation of "interesting" traces can be found in the
 [cairo-traces
-repositroy](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo-traces). By checking
-this repository out to perf/cairo-traces in the cairo source
-directory, these traces will be automatically run by
+repository](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo-traces). This collection
+includes traces of various uses of common applications such as
+firefox, gnome-terminal, swfdec (including viewing youtube), and
+poppler.
+
+By checking this repository out to perf/cairo-traces in the cairo
+source directory, these traces will be automatically run by
 "cairo-perf-trace" (with no arguments) as well as by "make perf".


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