Huge slowdown since 6.0

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:07:46PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Even if we start out with on-demand, it should work better.  Given:
> 
> 	$ gdb foo
> 	(gdb) break main
> 	(gdb) run
> 
> why is GDB loading glibc's symbols?

Main might be a function defined in a shared library.  Even if we found
a definition in the executable, it might be a PLT loading slot.  KDE
on i386 will demonstrate this exact behavior.

IOW, I don't think there is anything we can do without loading symbols
as soon as objects are available.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer