Creating elements for the first time takes ages

[Edward Hervey]

On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 09:36 -0700, Ralph wrote:
> I profiled the execution of the following line:
>     Gst.Element fileSource = Gst.ElementFactory.Make("gnlfilesource");
> 
> 
> The result is:
>     8037ms, 1 call  - Gst.ElementFactory.Make(String)
>     
> 
> The critical method down the execution tree from
> Gst.ElementFactory.Make(String):
>     8009ms, 5 calls  - Gst.Application.GstResolveType(GType, String)
> 
> 
> The slowest methods called by Gst.Application.GstResolveType(GType, String)
>     5208ms, 1272269 calls  - System.RuntimeType.IsDefined(Type, Boolean)
>     2379ms, 2471 calls  - System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes

 I'm not sure how those bindings work, but I'm going to say they are
dynamically generated (i.e. at runtime), and you've it the place where
it generates the bindings.

> 
> 
> I'm confused...
> 
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