From: "Alexander Smundak" <asmundak@cisco.com>
To: "Andrew Cagney" <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: "Cynbe ru Taren" <cynbe@muq.org>, <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: parallelized 'ld'?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02ff01c365bb$3612d740$5f3b45ab@amer.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F40EB8C.3040908@redhat.com>
Andrew,
> >> I believe one identified problem is how the symbol table uses hash
> >> tables. The symbol tables are being given a careful upgrade. Was this
> >> what you noticed?
> >
> > No, it is handling BINCL records in STABS. I have replaced the linear
search
> > in dbxread.c, function find_corresponding_bincl_psymtab() with hash
table,
> > and this shaved 3 minutes off the GDB initialization time in our case
> > (on 333MHz Sparc Ultra).
> > Please note that our compiler is gcc 2.95, and that this is for STABS
> > debugging
> > format. I can send the diffs to the interested parties; they are for 5.0
> > GDB, though.
>
> Ah. Unless you/cisco have an assignment, a bug report pointing at the
> offending code would be better.
It turns out there is already an open PR#975:
Reporter's email:klee@apple.com
Number:975
Category:symtab
Synopsis:[RFA] Use hash to speed up BINCL/INCL processing.
Severity:serious
Priority:medium
State:open
Arrival-Date:Thu Jan 30 04:48:00 UTC 2003
Last-Modified:Sun Feb 16 04:18:00 UTC 2003
Alexander Smundak
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2003-08-16 14:46 ` Andrew Cagney
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