Best ways to analyze application performance?

[Roland Scheidegger]

Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> I am very interrested in helping some some open source UI toolkits and
> applications in tuning their interfaces  - however I come from the
> java-world where a profiler (thanks to the vm) was everything needed
> to see the problematic areas of an application.
> 
> Do special tools exist for measuring performance of x11 based
> applications? If not, which profiler would you recommend for tuning
> x11 based applications?
I think using a generic profiler (oprofile) should be all what you need.

> I would be also interrested in reading some artciles/tutorials about
> X11 performance in general (tipps, tricks and theorie) does anybody
> know such tutorials or articles? (not targeted to x11 purists ;-) )

Roland