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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speed up psymbol reading by removing a copy
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:15:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhaip4ix.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv1gj0c4.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Sat, 18 Apr 2020 09:11:07 -0600")

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:
Tom> I noticed that cp_canonicalize_string and friends copy a
Tom> unique_xmalloc_ptr to a std::string.  However, this copy isn't
Tom> genuinely needed anywhere, and it serves to slow down DWARF psymbol
Tom> reading.

Tom> This patch removes the copy and updates the callers to adapt.

Tom> This speeds up the reader from 1.906 seconds (mean of 10 runs, of gdb
Tom> on a copy of itself) to 1.888 seconds (mean of 10 runs, on the same
Tom> copy as the first trial).

Tom> I didn't notice at the time, but this message didn't include the entire
Tom> patch.  I've appended the full patch now.

I'm checking this in now. 

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-08 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-04 19:35 Tom Tromey
2020-04-18 15:11 ` Tom Tromey
2020-05-08 20:15   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2020-05-09 18:18     ` [committed][gdb] Fix catch throw regexp matching Tom de Vries
2020-05-11 16:42       ` Tom Tromey

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