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From: "Paweł Sikora" <pawel.sikora@agmk.net>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: very slow gdb stepping.
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 09:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1779173.Fpv35T44XV@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120331215613.GA1439@host2.jankratochvil.net>

On Saturday 31 of March 2012 23:57:18 Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:05:09 +0200, Paweł Sikora wrote:
> > during debugging a large c++ application an each gdb step (next or step-in)
> > takes from ~2 to ~30 seconds which is horribly slow and uncomfortable :(
> [...]
> > http://carme.pld-linux.org/~pluto/gdb-cpuhog/
> 
> The name gdb-7.4.50-0.20120120 it suggests a snapshot with performance
> regression later already fixed on trunk by Tom Tromey.  This performance
> regression was not present in 7.4 and it will not be present in 7.5.
> 
> I have fixed this regression by a backport in 7.4.50.20120120-35.fc17,
> the 20120120 snapshot date may suggest your GDB is somehow Fedora derived.
> 	http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=ea0fcb4584cb04c938e32e44ad21a04c6225c5a1
> ->
> 	FYI: remove extraneous block from dw2_map_symtabs_matching_filename
> 	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-02/msg00409.html
> 	FYI: fix some performance bugs with .gdb_index
> 	http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-02/msg00413.html
> 

didn't help too much. callgrind still shows zilion calls to glibc's strcmp
from filename_cmp and start_subfile. our c++ project contains lot of files:

$ find sources -type f -name '*.?pp' |wc -l
6947
$ find buildenv -type f -name '*.?pp' |wc -l
8906

on each step in 95% of cases gdb deduces language for the same files 
(e.g. libstdc++, boost and common application headers). moreover the gdb
performs deduce_language_from_filename for each file *twice* (buildsym.c:585 and :607).

finally 'set language c++' doesn't disable auto deducing :(

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-01  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-31 13:05 Paweł Sikora
2012-03-31 21:57 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-03-31 22:01   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-04-01  9:19   ` Paweł Sikora [this message]
2012-04-01 10:44   ` Paweł Sikora

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