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Subject: Re: Unneeded displaced single stepping causes issues: Performance drop and range stepping killer
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Raphael Zulliger <zulliger@indel.ch>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Raphael Zulliger <zulliger@indel.ch> wrote:
> - There's something I hope we could improve (but I haven't looked
> into the code yet): When GDB receives a stop reply, it issues many "memory
> reads". Sometimes it read consecutive memory by multiple RSP packages.
> Sometime it even reads the same memory region twice.

It's unfortunate that gdb's remote caching support doesn't work better
"out of the box".