From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7583 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2009 15:46:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 7569 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jun 2009 15:46:30 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:46:26 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A711053C; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:46:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (209.195.188.212.nauticom.net [209.195.188.212]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BCAA104DF; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:46:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MJUfy-0000aH-FJ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:46:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:46:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Tom Tromey Cc: Ulrich Weigand , Doug Evans , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [10/15] Basic value access routines Message-ID: <20090624154618.GA1825@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Tromey , Ulrich Weigand , Doug Evans , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200906151658.n5FGwrN6026829@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00643.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:31:16AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > A related idea that occurred to me is that, with Jan's type GC, we > could detach types from objfiles and "intern" them (something like > bcache-for-types). This would only be a win if there are many > identical types distributed across objfiles, though. There's plenty of identical types within a single objfile. Load GDB with -readnow, and I find 66 copies of the typedef for "FILE", for instance. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery