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Re: Terminally slow (75 seconds) on some steps
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:34:42 -0400 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> wrote:
> Is this a threaded program on GNU/Linux? 5.3 contained a major
> performance improvement for threaded debugging.
Threads are only planned. There is a lot of locks, but only one thread.
> Also, something from April '02 is seriously old. Try either 5.3, or a
> 6.0 snap (see http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/)
I have here Cvs HEAD and it gives 68->11 seconds improvement. It still
isn't the same as outside debugger, but it's usable, especially because
single-stepping is faster too.