Re: [PATCH] MI: new timing command

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > > + Toggle the printing of the wallclock, user and system times for an MI
 > > + command as a field in its output. Â,A This command is to help frontend
 > > + developers optimize the performance of their code. Â,A 
 > 
 > I though it's to help gdb developers to optimize performance of
 > their code ;-)

I was thinking of frontend developers as gdb developers would presumably use
profiling but, hey, I'm making it up as I go along and if it proves useful
for developing GDB too we can add that.

 >                At least when gdb takes a second for list frames,
 > there's nothing I can do in a frontend ;-)

Well, for example, you can see the time that a command like -stack-list-frames
takes and decide whether to cap the number of frames and what time that saves.

 > > No argument is 
 > > + equivalent to @samp{yes}.   
 > 
 > I'd suggest to say that this command may return error if 
 > timing is not available. Otherwise, frontend authors might
 > not even think this command can fail, and when it fails,
 > user will see completely buffling error message.

Yes, I'll add this if I get approval for getrusage.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob