Re: [RFA] Kill some linear searches in minsyms.c

[Dan Mosedale <dmose@mozilla.org>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:15:34PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
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>>What command gdb executing at this point?
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>My impression was that we had hit a shared library event (Mozilla
>plugins are DSOs, so there's lots of these!). 
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It's worse than that, actuallly.  In fact, 99% of Mozilla's code is in 
DSOs, of which there are an obscene number.  We've got plans to move 
towards at least a much smaller set of DSOs, but that will take some 
time.  In the meantime, I've been hacking on a gdb patch to add a third 
setting to auto-solib-add meaning "load symbols as lazily as possible".  
I'll post a cut at that here once it's in better shape.

>Still passes make check, still shaves six seconds (thirty percent or
>so) off of "file mozilla-bin; run; exit".  Still correctly sets the
>longjmp breakpoint once libc has been loaded; I checked that by hand.
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Woot!

Dan