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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: very very slow symbol searches
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030123014548.GA19978@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1043284590.7612.9.camel@Dragon>

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 05:16:29PM -0800, Martin M. Hunt wrote:
> More details.  The slowdown is caused by using the glibc regex.  Why
> would that make it so much slower?  Don't know yet.  Anyway forcing GDB
> to use the included regex in libiberty fixes the problem.
> 
> 2003-01-02  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@gnu.org>
> 
>         * configure.in: Rewrite check for GNU regex and the
>         --without-included regex option, and move it into the "Checks
> for
>         library functions" section.  This makes us use the system regex
>         again by default on systems with version 2 of the GNU C library.
>         This was apparently broken.
>         * gdb_regex.h [!USE_INCLUDED_REGEX] (_REGEX_RE_COMP): Define.
>         * acconfig.h (USE_INCLUDED_REGEX): Remove.
>         * config.in, configure: Regenerated.

Sigh, let me gues, is your host glibc version 2.3?  The regex engine
was rewritten, not always for the better.

Some performance issues were fixed recently in the glibc CVS.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-23  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-22 11:58 Martin M. Hunt
2003-01-22 15:02 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-01-22 17:41   ` David Carlton
2003-01-22 19:36     ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-22 20:46   ` Martin M. Hunt
2003-01-23  1:14     ` Martin M. Hunt
2003-01-23  1:45       ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-01-23  2:43         ` Martin M. Hunt
2003-01-23  6:10           ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-01-23 16:54           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-23 20:06           ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-22 18:26 ` David Carlton
2003-01-22 18:44   ` David Carlton
2003-01-26  7:48   ` Martin M. Hunt
2003-01-27 17:03 ` Andrew Cagney

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