slow script execution when debugging large binaries

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 17:55, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 05:48:18PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > attached the output of `gprof` on both runs
> >
> > slow:
> > (gdb) maintanence set profile
> > (gdb) file vmlinux
> > (gdb) speed-test
> > (gdb) quit
>
> If you want useful profiles, I recommend not profiling "file".
> We already know that's slow :-)

erp !  actually, loading the kernel took just shy of a second

> But at a guess, you'll still have a symbol lookup on top of the profile.

yeah, new one attached looks as you thought
-mike
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