Re: Multi-threaded dwarf parsing

Jan Kratochvil
2016-02-24T21:22:25Z

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:10:46 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/24/2016 08:25 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> > If really your concern are psymtabs then use Tom's .gdb_index:
> > gdb/contrib/gdb-add-index.sh
>
> I think the index isn't so helpful if the big thing that takes a
> while to read/load is what you're changing in a edit/compile/debug
> cycle.

I found it useful even during edit/compile/debug cycles. If one modifies
an .h file the compilation step takes up to a few minutes anyway so that is
a non-interactive step. Moreover it is done only once, one may debug it more
times then etc.

> Sounds like something that could be sped up by reading CUs in parallel.

Yes; going to discuss it in another mail.

Jan