From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Berlin <dan@cgsoftware.com>
To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
Cc: <drow@mvista.com>, <gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com>, <pes@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>, <insight@sources.redhat.com>, <keiths@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: [rfa] Remove a silly looking symtab sort.
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:19:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111072116200.30759-100000@www.cgsoftware.com>
References: <15337.59481.934748.349577@krustylu.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/msg00296.html

>
> I am not sure about the reason for the 40 limit. Wonder what would
> happen if we got rid of that check. It predates our internal cvs repo
> (i.e. it has been there from before 1991).
I'm guessing It's only really there because it's slower to
sort 40 symbols  than it is to look through them.  We probably ended up
sorting a ton of  1-10 symbol small blocks for no good reason, wasting
tons of time during reading.

--Dan