Re: [RFA] bug in symtab.c:lookup_block_symbol()'s search method

Andrew Cagney
2001-09-14T07:53:00Z

>> IMNSHO gdb 5.1 can not be released with the symbol binary search
>> lookup broken as it has been for the last year.
>
> Broken?
> You mean slower.
> It works *correctly*, just not as *efficiently* as it could.
> Big difference.

gdb is measured against many criteria, one is performance. if gdb's
performance drops, gdb has regressed. some would describe it as broken.

in some some situtations - replacing a macro by a function say - such a
regression is considered acceptable. in other cases - such as an
algorithm change that is ment to improve performance - it is not.

andrew