Re: [PATCH] symbol lookup cache

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> But, *if* one-size-fits-all *wasn't* working (*1), and I think I can
> reasonably assume we're agreed we're not there yet, then would you
> immediately go the route of providing a user option to allow changing
> the size, or first see if gdb could do better on its own?
> 
> ---
> (*1): I'm only suggesting exploring dynamically adjusting the cache
> size (I realize you wrote hash size) *if* the data suggests we need
> it. IMO we're not there yet.  But, and here's where the disagreement
> is (AFAICT), *if* we do get there, I'd rather see if gdb could do
> better on its own first, before adding a knob that the user has to
> tweak to get the desired performance.

On that, I don't really have an opinion, at least not yet; and since
I don't see us getting there, I propose we do not decide now :).

-- 
Joel