gdb is sooooo slow - is that normal?

[Brian Dessent]

John Emmas wrote:

> That shows 5 stages out of maybe 20 or so that seem to run before my own app
> appears on screen.  The problem is that each of those stages can take
> anywhere from about 6 seconds up to 15 seconds (taking longer, the more
> breakpoints I've set).  Therefore after starting the debug process, it can
> take between 2 minutes and maybe 6 minutes before my app gets launched.  Is
> this normal for Cygwin?  The more complex the app, the worse the problem is.
> If I set more than about 5 breakpoints with a complicated app, the debugger
> takes so long to get going that it becomes not worth waiting.  Does anyone
> else find this?  I'd like to find out whether it's a problem with Cygwin or
> with CodeBlocks.

No, that's certainly not normal.  Try the same commands directly in
Cygwin's packaged gdb with CodeBlocks completely removed from the
picture and see if it's the same speed.

Brian

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