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Re: Symbol lookup performance


On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:23:23PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> Is that comment about worst case symbol lookup performance still valid?
> Looking at some of list archives it seems like this problem has been
> tackled a bit before, and if i'm reading the code right lookup_symbol
> uses reasonably efficient algorithms to do the lookup. If so, can we
> remove the hppa-only  SYMBOLS_CAN_START_WITH_DOLLAR check?

Yes, I think you're right.

If symbol performance still reeks anywhere, it'll be only on HP-UX
(because of the mess that is somread).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz


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