Terminally slow (75 seconds) on some steps

[Robert Vazan]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:34:42 -0400 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> wrote:

> Is this a threaded program on GNU/Linux?  5.3 contained a major 
> performance improvement for threaded debugging.

Threads are only planned. There is a lot of locks, but only one thread.

> Also, something from April '02 is seriously old.  Try either 5.3, or a 
> 6.0 snap (see http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/)

I have here Cvs HEAD and it gives 68->11 seconds improvement. It still
isn't the same as outside debugger, but it's usable, especially because
single-stepping is faster too.