Re: [RFA] deleting breakpoints inside of 'commands' [Repost]

Michael Snyder
2001-09-18T18:03:00Z

Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> >
> > I know GDB has performance problems with symbols, but I do not
> > know that it doesn't have performance problems with executing
> > command lists. I know that when I used to work on the XRAY
> > debugger, macro performance was a really big issue, whereas
> > no one seems to have talked about it much in GDB...
>
> I'd expect gdb's macro performance to also be an issue. I'd expect the
> problems to come from host<->target overhead and not this command
> duplication though.

OK, well, virtually anything will pale to insignificance
next to host<->target overhead. As I said, if I'm the only
one who feels any concern about this, I will waive it.