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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: jagorak <jagorak@wp.pl>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Setting a variable is very slow.
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <462A088D.9050409@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1546343093.20070421134325@wp.pl>

jagorak wrote:

> *More  importantly*:
> ===> Is there any way to make the assignments work faster? <===

First step is you should do some profiling work to see if you can
find out what is taking the time in gdb
> 
> E.g.  by  telling  gdb  to cache the address of a symbol (variable) so
> that everytime the symbol is being set gdb does not have to go through
> the  symbol  table  to  obtain  the address (in case that would be the
> reason why assignments are very slow).

That's a good idea, would be good to work on this improvement
to gdb. By all means investigate!


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-21 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-21 12:43 jagorak
2007-04-21 12:50 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2007-04-21 13:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-30 20:05   ` Re[2]: " jagorak

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