[RFA] Improve performance with lots of shared libraries
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Tue Oct 4 19:46:00 GMT 2011
>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com> writes:
Pedro> Only one, when Tom's work is done, make breakpoints have a "final"
Pedro> property (meaning, "stop adding locations for this breakpoint")
Pedro> for user breakpoints, and automatically mark some internal
Pedro> breakpoints we know can't have more than one location with that
Pedro> flag. Breakpoints on addresses ("b *FOO") would have the "final"
Pedro> property implicitly as well. If all the breakpoints in the table
Pedro> are "final", then we don't need to track shared library loads.
Jan> BTW I agree with this design.
Gary> Me too.
Gary> I will leave this patch on ice until Tom's work is done, or at least
Gary> until Tom is back and can comment.
I haven't read the patch yet, just this subthread.
I also agree with this approach; in fact I think it is what we all
agreed to in the long thread determining the new semantics.
Tom
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