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Doing this means abandoning the psymtab and instead having symbol code directly read each symbol or address as it is needed, and with the minimum auxulary information (i.e., direct from disk).
For what it's worth, we've been working on a less ambitious scheme at Apple for the past month, with similar benefits.
Andrew's approach is much cooler, but it's definitely not something that could be done with stabs (as it exists today), and we're stuck on stabs on MacOS X for a while still.
Anyway, just a point of information. It was a HUGE win for us on extremely large applications where they have many large solibs and the developer is only debugging code in a couple of them.
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