From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Smundak <asmundak@cisco.com>
Cc: Cynbe ru Taren <cynbe@muq.org>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: parallelized 'ld'?
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F40EB8C.3040908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <025c01c36521$30e2ec50$5f3b45ab@amer.cisco.com>
> [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?
>
> 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.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 15:06 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <87d6f63jes.fsf@muq.org>
2003-08-16 14:46 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-08-18 0:40 ` Alexander Smundak
2003-08-18 15:06 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-08-18 19:02 ` Alexander Smundak
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