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From: Nick Savoiu <savoiu@ics.uci.edu>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Improving GDB startup time with large programs
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 22:12:00 -0000
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Hi,

I have a rather large project for which I would like to improve the debugging 
startup time. Right now it takes GDB a good 20-30 seconds (loading symbols 
and such, I assume) from invoking 'run' to really executing the debugged 
program.

Does anyone have info or a pointer to info on how to optimize this?

Thanks,
Nick