Re: [PATCH] symbol lookup cache

Doug Evans
2014-12-20T21:04:07Z

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.