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Re: [rfa] Remove a silly looking symtab sort.
- To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [rfa] Remove a silly looking symtab sort.
- From: Daniel Berlin <dan at cgsoftware dot com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 21:19:23 -0500 (EST)
- cc: <drow at mvista dot com>, <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>, <pes at regent dot e-technik dot tu-muenchen dot de>, <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>, <keiths at cygnus dot com>
>
> I am not sure about the reason for the 40 limit. Wonder what would
> happen if we got rid of that check. It predates our internal cvs repo
> (i.e. it has been there from before 1991).
I'm guessing It's only really there because it's slower to
sort 40 symbols than it is to look through them. We probably ended up
sorting a ton of 1-10 symbol small blocks for no good reason, wasting
tons of time during reading.
--Dan