How to: Use TAL Application Monitor to Trace Application Performance
As the scope of TV application keeps on expanding, we always get into a pitfall of being not considerate enough for low end devices. And the consequences could be devastating . Here, I am going to introduce a new way of benchmarking the performance of the TV application as new functionalities are being developed and also keeping an eye on its impact on performance. * Pre-requisite If your application is built upon TAL and Zend Framework , then you are good to go! * On the fly 1. Get TAL Performance Monitor from GitHub. What it does is to manipulate TAL components with the custom behaviours, such as dumping FPS figures onto your terminal in this branch. 2. Create SymLink to 'talperformancemonitor.js' from tv application. cd /<tvapplicationpath>/ ln -s /<talperformancemonitorpath>/talperformancemonitor.js talperformnacemonitor.js 3. Configure TV application header to launch with TAL Performance Monitor. Drop in the...