Re: Huge slowdown since 6.0

[David Carlton <carlton@kealia.com>]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 11:58:45 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> said:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 08:52:35AM -0800, David Carlton wrote:

>> There's one other interesting point here - where exactly is the
>> slowdown coming from?  After all, we generate the same number of
>> searches, and lookup_symbol can potentially look at all the static
>> psymbols just like it could look at all the global psymbols.  Not
>> only that, but looking at the static psymbols is vastly slower than
>> looking at the global psymbols (for no good reason, as far as I
>> know, but that's a separate issue; lookup_partial_symbol has
>> issues).
>> 
>> But I suppose the point is that looking at all the static psymbols is
>> only a very last resort in lookup_symbol, so (as long as the symbol
>> you're looking for actually exists) it wouldn't get called very often.
>> 
>> Or is there something else that I'm missing?

> I'm not even getting to the point where we do searches.  See
> sort_pst_symbols for the issue.

Oh, interesting.  Hmm; that puts a different spin on things.

David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com