Re: MI: type prefixes for values

Vladimir Prus
2006-02-20T07:26:39Z

On Friday 17 February 2006 23:40, Jim Ingham wrote:
> And... since the varobj's only parse the expression once when the
> varobj is created, getting the current values of varobj's is much
> faster than doing -data-evaluate-expression. Not a big deal if you
> are just printing one value. But if you are trying to update all the
> local variables on every step, this can be significant. People tend
> to be pretty sensitive to the speed of the "step" operation...

Hi Jim,

can you provide some concrete numbers? Specifically, is using varobj to get
values of all local variables faster then a single -stack-list-locals, and if
so, by how much?

Thanks,
Volodya