From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12862 invoked by alias); 2 Jun 2015 00:03:09 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 12850 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jun 2015 00:03:08 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ob0-f170.google.com Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f170.google.com) (209.85.214.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:03:07 +0000 Received: by obbnx5 with SMTP id nx5so115726412obb.0 for ; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:03:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=pP5S217Jh/tvnIbFwmlQRfq70yEDzW9Q+DYvloBn/LY=; b=M6czcYV9acBCBQjrhBsLRyFyLGGwnjViCAg9Zjh95P4aUFK6+Uo3cX26xZOBK5G9MW vVj1cqWC8yB6UcJmxI35UPQ7UbQMeYZWSbTpfAQA0fwpHY9LP9MeNs1FsCJv6lmP5Exd RAqmioBnXSEAAGKqEmE0vblKUCcn71HvTxjb3FxG9h+Js28s9h7s/46c/NB9nK8lvMJv pMGY6rt/TLBssIm8Tk1hlIvBbADYW8ik3twH78MJzbVU6DoKYEp+6mDTp1bsKbURJYOo C/RLLuucktgilcxEe/3juYS/cQtbeByNQWpBYGdKw/Ae+qDf2ekJBexiDiPq+z/kqhu3 r4zg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmlggT1F5VZZotl1fV1rIaUnH2joHO0Z3LnDHb0WTAUwjlhB1s+HintaEUA/MsNc9H3qvbt MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.22.11 with SMTP id z11mr18583666obe.77.1433203385437; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.89.99 with HTTP; Mon, 1 Jun 2015 17:03:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <089e0160b1be9352da05162640cb@google.com> <86382ssrx7.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make file-based lookup more interruptable From: Doug Evans To: Yao Qi Cc: gdb-patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-06/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Doug Evans wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Yao Qi wrote: >> Doug Evans writes: >> >>> This patch makes, for example, "b 'foo.c':bar" more interruptable. >> >> Does 'interruptable' mean user can type ctrl-c to cancel the command >> "b 'foo.c':bar" which may take 10 minutes? If so, this change is >> visible to users, and do we need to add a NEWS entry? > > I'd classify this as being no different than a performance improvement. > There already is a level of interruptability, the only change is in degree > of responsiveness. > > We *can* start adding such things to NEWS, but we don't do so today. > Before we start imposing this on everyone, we'll need to establish > what does and does not qualify - I'm guessing we don't want to add > a NEWS entry for every little performance improvement. Hi. "ping" :-) Whaddayathink? Should we start adding perf improvements to NEWS (and try to classify what is newsworthy)? Or let it go, at least for now?