From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, luis.machado@arm.com
Subject: Re: Two observations using GDB 13 snapshot
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:26:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mt7idacj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6xrks77.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:18:52 -0700)
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, Eli
> Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:18:52 -0700
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
>
> Eli> Tom, could you please chime in? What could explain such a slowdown
> Eli> using -readnow and in the MinGW build without worker threads (since
> Eli> GDB 12 didn't use threads, either)? And why -readnow is so different
> Eli> from a GDB built without threading?
>
> Just a quick answer for now, I haven't tried to reproduce or
> investigate...
>
> -readnow should not really be affected by the DWARF scanner rewrite.
> With -readnow, all the new code is bypassed anyway. For quite a while
> now, -readnow (when using DWARF anyway) has operated on the principle
> that since gdb is reading full symbols, it might as well not bother with
> partial symbols (or now, the index).
>
> Threads also should not matter here, because only the initial scan can
> use multiple threads. The full symbol reader is single-threaded and
> hasn't changed in any deep way since GDB 12.
>
> It's possible that some other change affected this -- the DWARF reader
> in general sees a lot of patches. I don't know which one it might be
> offhand, though.
So you are saying that the rewrite of the DWARF scanner could be the
reason for the slowness?
Let me know if I can provide any additional information that could be
useful in investigating this.
Would it be useful to open a bugzilla issue?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-20 3:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-17 17:42 Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-19 10:07 ` Luis Machado
2022-12-19 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-19 14:08 ` Luis Machado
2022-12-19 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-19 21:18 ` Tom Tromey
2022-12-20 3:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-12-23 3:34 ` Simon Marchi
2022-12-23 8:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 17:57 ` Tom Tromey
2022-12-24 18:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-27 17:19 ` Tom Tromey
2022-12-27 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-28 12:35 ` Luis Machado
2022-12-28 16:35 ` Tom Tromey
2022-12-28 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-28 22:47 ` Tom Tromey
2022-12-29 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-29 18:17 ` Tom Tromey
2022-12-29 18:36 ` John Baldwin
2022-12-29 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-29 20:22 ` Simon Marchi
2022-12-30 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-03 19:44 ` Christian Biesinger
2023-01-03 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-03 20:34 ` Christian Biesinger
2023-01-03 21:34 ` Simon Marchi
2023-01-03 21:43 ` Christian Biesinger
2023-01-04 1:03 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-04 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-04 22:33 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-05 7:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-05 14:49 ` Christian Biesinger
2023-01-05 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-06 20:55 ` Tom Tromey
2023-01-05 18:06 ` Torbjorn SVENSSON
2023-01-07 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 9:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 10:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 13:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 13:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 13:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 14:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 14:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 15:40 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 16:16 ` Hannes Domani
2023-01-07 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 17:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 18:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 19:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-07 18:28 ` Hannes Domani
2023-01-07 19:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2023-01-07 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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