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

Doug Evans
2015-06-02T12:34:19Z

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com> wrote:
> This kind of change [a perf improvement can be user
> visible (10 min -> 10s) and can be user invisible (2s -> 1s).

An improvement of 10min -> 10s (or greater, I have made several)
would be "good news to users", no?

> However, this change isn't performance improvement, because it doesn't
> shorten the time of operation like "b 'foo.c':bar".

Oh?
"b 'foo.c':bar" + ^c changes from 10min to 10sec (or some such).
How is this any different?

> This change only
> makes GDB more interruptable during some operations, IMO this is a good
> news to users and we should let them know.