From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16886 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2013 17:19:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact archer-commits-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Sender: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: Received: (qmail 16855 invoked by uid 306); 22 Feb 2013 17:19:40 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20130222171940.16839.qmail@sourceware.org> From: tromey@sourceware.org To: archer-commits@sourceware.org Subject: [SCM] archer-tromey-threaded-dwarf: add README.archer X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/archer-tromey-threaded-dwarf X-Git-Reftype: branch X-Git-Oldrev: e0418e92bde228efd50f5305014969ff17b58ed0 X-Git-Newrev: f46dc58dcb881b653021700a45c8f92c7b616892 X-SW-Source: 2013-q1/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 List-Id: The branch, archer-tromey-threaded-dwarf has been updated via f46dc58dcb881b653021700a45c8f92c7b616892 (commit) from e0418e92bde228efd50f5305014969ff17b58ed0 (commit) Those revisions listed above that are new to this repository have not appeared on any other notification email. - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit f46dc58dcb881b653021700a45c8f92c7b616892 Author: Tom Tromey Date: Fri Feb 22 09:31:29 2013 -0700 add README.archer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: README.archer | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 README.archer First 500 lines of diff: diff --git a/README.archer b/README.archer new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8222685 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.archer @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +This branch has some experimental code for making psymtabs for DWARF +in worker threads. It has some generic changes to gdb and BFD for +thread-awareness, and changes to the DWARF reader to make it work in +the background. + +It still has a few issues. The "complaint" system is not thread-safe +and the BFD file descriptor cache is still somewhat broken. There may +be lurking problems. + +The biggest issue is that this didn't really help much for +performance. It might in some situations, but it isn't an unqualified +win. hooks/post-receive -- Repository for Project Archer.