From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16923 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2006 07:26:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 16915 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Feb 2006 07:26:39 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su (HELO zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su) (158.250.17.23) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 07:26:37 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su with spam-scanned (Exim 4.50) id 1FB5RK-0006uV-Ht for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:26:35 +0300 Received: from zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su ([158.250.17.23]) by zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1FB5R2-0006tn-Rt; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:26:16 +0300 From: Vladimir Prus To: Jim Ingham Subject: Re: MI: type prefixes for values Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:11:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <200602171724.03824.ghost@cs.msu.su> <20060217203120.GE30881@nevyn.them.org> <3D09ADF2-5A80-4B42-B4DE-2A2861C3A2AA@apple.com> In-Reply-To: <3D09ADF2-5A80-4B42-B4DE-2A2861C3A2AA@apple.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602201026.15624.ghost@cs.msu.su> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00266.txt.bz2 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