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Re: [Bug symtab/8367] [RFA] performance improvement of lookup_partial_symtab
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Jerome Guitton <guitton at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:00:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: [Bug symtab/8367] [RFA] performance improvement of lookup_partial_symtab
- References: <20090114174542.GM84382@adacore.com> <20090115094511.GB80710@adacore.com>
> + psymtab_to_fullname has a significant cost as it calls
> + find_and_open_source, which itself does some I/O operation
> + (e.g. open). In cumulative, it can take several seconds with
> + large systems (around 4000 files), if the file is accessed
> + through a slow file system (e.g. NFS). Here is a shell script
> + that you can use to generate such a large system:
I forgot to mention: Double-space after a period :). There's a couple
of places where you used a single space.
Cheers,
--
Joel