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To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>,         "gdb@sourceware.org" 	<gdb@sourceware.org>
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Subject: RE: real world reverse debugging success story
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[...]
>=20
> Stats: used an 8 million instruction cache, running as a
> ring buffer.  Had to record over 80 million instructions
> before I tripped the bug.  Saved core file with record log
> was 250 megabytes, and reloaded fine.

Very impressive!

How was the responsiveness?  I assume you didn't step
over all those instuctions ;-)  So, you must have run the program
and have it be recorded for a while.  I'm wondering if the execution
was annoyingly slow, or if it was ok.

Thanks
=20