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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:43:00 -0000
From: Fredrik Tolf <fredrik@dolda2000.com>
To: Duane Ellis <duane@duaneellis.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Bad performance in updating JIT debug symbols
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2016, Duane Ellis wrote:
> So why not make a wrapper on the symbol lookup function
> 
> Search the main list if that fails to find try the next list of syms.
> 
> After you under 100 inserts resort your additional list. And start a new list

I can imagine a lot of ways to optimize the current code, but the main 
point was that GDB seems to be stuck in a path of the code that is not 
really intended to be used other than when GDB is "confused", so the main 
question is why that happens.