$Id$ Could schedulers do a little profiling? * scheduler keeps a list of usecs the process function of each element was running * process functions are: loop, chain, get * scheduler keeps a sum of all times * each gst-element has a profile_percentage field * when going to play * scheduler sets sum and all usecs in the list to 0 * when handling an element * remember old usecs t_old * take time t1 * call elements processing function * take time t2 * t_new=t2-t1 * sum+=(t_new-t_old) * profile_percentage=t_new/sum; * should the percentage be averaged? * profile_percentage=(profile_percentage+(t_new/sum))/2.0; * the profile_percentage shows how much CPU time the element uses in relation to the whole pipeline