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    profile: Update to uprof-0.3 dep for --enable-profile · fb7bf9ce
    Robert Bragg authored
    When building with --enable-profile we now depend on the uprof-0.3
    developer release which brings a few improvements:
    
    » It lets us "fix" how we initialize uprof so that instead of using a shared
    object constructor/destructor (which was a hack used when first adding
    uprof support to Clutter) we can now initialize as part of clutter's
    normal initialization code. As a side note though, I found that the way
    Clutter initializes has some quite serious problems whenever it
    involves GOptionGroups. It is not able to guarantee the initialization
    of dependencies like uprof and Cogl. For this reason we still use the
    contructor/destructor approach to initialize uprof in Cogl.
    
    » uprof-0.3 provides a better API for adding custom columns when reporting
    timer and counter statistics which lets us remove quite a lot of manual
    report generation code in clutter-profile.c.
    
    » uprof-0.3 provides a shared context for tracking mainloop timer
    statistics. This means any mainloop based library following the same
    "Mainloop" timer naming convention can use the shared context and no
    matter who ends up owning the final mainloop the statistics will always
    be in the same place. This allows profiling of Clutter with an
    external mainloop such as with the Mutter compositor.
    
    » uprof-0.3 can export statistics over dbus and comes with an ncurses
    based ui to vizualize timer and counter stats live.
    
    The latest version of uprof can be cloned from:
    git://github.com/rib/UProf.git
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