> You could do some profiling with gprof. > To that you need to link vdr with -- hmm -- I think gp (read: > add -lgp when linking), then run it inside gprof (gprof vdr ....). > > --Stefan > 84.78% 51.92 51.92 70436 0.00 0.00 cSchedule::GetEvent(unsigned short, long) const That's the culprit... I wonder if it would be worth rewriting cSchedule to store events in a binary tree based on time. A double-linked list could be included in the nodes pointing to allow for scanning through the schedule in the conventional way (for(cEvent *p = events.First()...) This would cut down the amount of work required to find an event based on time (used for timers, finding now/next events and probably numerous other places). Another tree of pointers could be built based on event id, to speed up searching based on IDs too. What do people think, would it be worth me writing a patch? Chris