Re: [PATCH] Make file-based lookup more interruptable

Yao Qi
2015-06-02T07:59:46Z

[Sorry for being late]

On 22/05/15 18:46, Doug Evans wrote:
> I'd classify this as being no different than a performance improvement.

I think they are different. IMO, performance improvement is the time
or memory reduction to some degree. This kind of change can be user
visible (10 min -> 10s) and can be user invisible (2s -> 1s).

> 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.

However, this change isn't performance improvement, because it doesn't
shorten the time of operation like "b 'foo.c':bar". This change only
makes GDB more interruptable during some operations, IMO this is a good
news to users and we should let them know.

Regarding to NEWS entry for performance improvement, I don't have an
opinion on it.

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Yao (é½å°§)