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Re: RFC: save lots of memory
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:39:48 +0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: save lots of memory
- References: <m3ljil228l.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20091105172839.GI4557@adacore.com>
> I'm looking forward to measuring the impact on memory and performance
> with one of the bigger apps we have in house :-).
I finally took the time to make some measurements. The app I used has
about 600kSLOCs (with comments, it is a little over a million lines)
of Ada, builds and link to about 145MB of code and 70MB of debug info
making a grand total of 215MB.
GDB startup time: 3.125s -> 2.369s => delta: -0.756s / -24.1 %
Peak memory usage: 158.3MB -> 70.9MB => delta: -87.4MB / -55.0 %
The same, but with -readnow:
GDB startup time: 7.339s -> 6.461s => delta: 0.878s / - 11.9%
Peak memory usage: 568.4MB -> 429.5MB => delta: -138.9MB / -24.4 %
Unsurprisingly, symbol lookup time did not appear to be affected either way.
I also quickly tried a patch suggested by Tom (attached), and got worse
results on both startup time and memory usage. No visible effect on lookup
performance. Not sure why, yet. I will keep the idea in mind, though.
For now, I must switch to something else again.
Impressive numbers nonetheless. This is a really nice catch, Tom!
--
Joel