From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11451 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2003 14:46:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11444 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2003 14:46:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Aug 2003 14:46:02 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C842B7F; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:45:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F3E43A5.1000906@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:46:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cynbe ru Taren Cc: Paul Hilfinger , gdb@sources.redhat.com, Alexander Smundak Subject: Re: parallelized 'ld'? References: <200307150234.h6F2YsNW028337@tully.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <87d6f63jes.fsf@muq.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-08/txt/msg00168.txt.bz2 [switching mailing lists from binutils@ to gdb@] > * "gdb used to take inordinate amount of time to load on our platform. The > fix was trivial, which likely means that few people ever use GDB on > such large executables." 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? As for using GDB on large programs, mozilla is (or was) the reference - its startup has gone from impossible to tolerable. I believe users now also have their sights on eclipse (compiled with gcj). So increasing demand is definitly there. Andrew