From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com>
To: dberlin@redhat.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make completions almost instantaneous
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 07:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <200103301521.KAA28199@indy.delorie.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0103300144290.20894-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00553.html

> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 04:09:08 -0500 (EST)
> From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com>
> 
> All this patch does is remove code.
> 
> Remember kids, premature optimization is the root of all evil.

I tried this patch, and all I can say is WOW!  "b TAB" while debugging
Emacs (6.6K symbols) used to take 15 seconds, now it takes 2; the same
while debugging GDB (10K symbols) used to take 30 seconds, now it
takes 3.

Thanks!  I was always annoyed by this, but never had time to dig into
it.

> Since it's unclear to me whether this is an obvious fix, i'll wait for
> approval from Elena or Jim.

Yes, please, please, pretty please, approve this!