GDB's bcache improved

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@toenail.to.cygnus.com
Sun Nov 21 07:30:00 GMT 1999


Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com> writes:

> [the cache-improved gdb says of itself]
> Byte cache statistics for '/umbra/jimb/i686/build/comp-tools/gdb/gdb':
>   Cached 'partial symbol cache' statistics:
>   [...]
>     Hash table population: 100%
>     Median hash chain length: 28
>     Average hash chain length: 28
>     Maximum hash chain length: 50
>   [...]


These population & chain length numbers look quite bad.  Can the hash
table not grow?


- FChE


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