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Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 11:16:00 -0000
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: speeding up time to hit first breakpoint
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On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:04:27 +0200, Noel Grandin wrote:
> I took a trace with 'perf record -g', which I'm enclosing. It looks like the
> bulk of the time is spent in xrealloc.

GDB unspecific but you can significantly improve the times by linking GDB
with: -ltcmalloc


Jan