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Re: [PATCH] Make file-based lookup more interruptable
- From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 14:08:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make file-based lookup more interruptable
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On 02/06/15 13:34, Doug Evans wrote:
An improvement of 10min -> 10s (or greater, I have made several)
would be "good news to users", no?
They are good news to users, of course. However, whether letting users
know them is another thing we need to decide.
>However, this change isn't performance improvement, because it doesn't
>shorten the time of operation like "b 'foo.c':bar".
Oh?
"b 'foo.c':bar" + ^c changes from 10min to 10sec (or some such).
How is this any different?
Operation "b 'foo.c':bar" becomes more interruptable rather than more
efficient.
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Yao (éå)