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UndoDB's performance
- From: Sean Chen <sean dot chen1234 at gmail dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:34:29 +0800
- Subject: UndoDB's performance
On UndoDb’s website, I saw the following ad.
Regular gdb-7 reverse runs apps 40,000x slower
UndoDB+gdb-7 reverse runs apps 1.7x slower!
In my experiment, gdb-7 reverse does run apps more than 20,000x
slower. How does UndoDB improve the performance so much without a
simulator and without record? Below is its self-introduction on the
website. UndoDB's "snapshot-and-replay" technique stores periodic
copy-on-write snapshots of the application and only non-deterministic
inputs (system calls, thread-switches, shared memory reads, etc).
Are there any obvious disadvantages in UndoDB? I tried to search
UndoDB in the archive of the mailing list, however, little discussion
is found.
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Best Regards,
Sean Chen