Re: [PATCH] symbol lookup cache

Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-21T03:34:34Z

> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:04:01 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
> Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:14:39 -0800
> >> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> >>
> >> > Btw, I wonder if this should be a user option, not a "maint" option.
> >> > The heuristics used to determine the cache size tend to be wrong in
> >> > some rare corner cases, so letting the user override this should be a
> >> > good thing, I think.
> >>
> >> The thought is the fewer knobs the user needs the better,
> >
> > We are way past the point where this ideal was achievable. You can
> > stop worrying about that. With the gazillion knobs we have already,
> > one more doesn't change anything.
>
> There isn't so much an ideal as a process that should be followed.
> I still want to vet every new knob that I feel needs vetting.

And the considerations, such as those I described, by others that
users might want this option -- do these have any bearing on your
decisions? IOW, is there any hope to convince you in these matters?