very very slow symbol searches

[Martin M. Hunt]

On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 07:07, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> 
> there have been some changes to that function on 12-23.  Could you try
> backing those out? This was a change we convinced ourselves it was ok
> to do, but maybe it is problematic.

I'm using "./insight insight" as a test case, measuring the time it
takes for a source window to be displayed.

1 Jan 03 snapshot takes 8 seconds.  This is normal.
8 Jan 03 snapshot takes 70 seconds.

I'll try to refine this further and come up with a better test case.

Martin