very very slow symbol searches

[Andrew Cagney]

>> Some performance issues were fixed recently in the glibc CVS.
> 
> 
> That doesn't help much.  What was wrong with having GDB on all platforms
> using the standard libiberty regex?

It is like readline and bfd.  While a distro can choose to mix 'n' match 
GDB in with a random regx and/or readline and/or bfd, I think GDB 
should, by default, link itself against the regx it was bundled with.

After all, we know that the bundled regex works with GDB.

enjoy,
Andrew