faster printing of QStrings

[Markus.Grunwald@pruftechnik.com]

Hello,

> Thanks for posting this - I'm sure it will be useful to someone, and
> it's also a good test case for GDB performance :-)

:) 
 
> I couldn't think of anything.  It's probably the array access and a
> pile of symbol lookups that are slowing it down; when I can find time
> (no promises, but this was already on top of my todo list) I will try
> to speed it up.

Perhaps a look into the kdevelop code could help - they do it somehow ...


> The only way you could use it with display today is by defining a
> hook-stop macro.

I'll have a look how this works.

Thanks !

Markus