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Re: [RFC] Debug Operators with GDB Python

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
Cc: Siva Chandra <sivachandra at google dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:54:46 -0700
Subject: Re: [RFC] Debug Operators with GDB Python
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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Doug> On a slightly related note,
Doug> one of the problems of the current pretty-printer implementation is
Doug> that we do a linear search through all printers looking for a match
Doug> every time we go to print something.
Doug> One way to improve on this is to cache the printer found with its type
Doug> (I think - haven't actually tried it).
Doug> I can imagine doing a similar thing with operator/method support if
Doug> the initial implementation proved too slow.
Doug> [It's not the only solution.]

We'd have to make it optional somehow, since nothing constrains
pretty-printers to be type-based right now.

Tom

References:
- Re: [RFC] Debug Operators with GDB Python
  - From: Siva Chandra
- Re: [RFC] Debug Operators with GDB Python
  - From: Doug Evans

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