gdb performance is impossible!!

[Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>]

We just switched our large application from the SunPro compiler to GCC
2.95.1.  This required us to switch from dbx to gdb 4.18.  We have found that 
gdb's performance is incredibly slow - so much so as to make it pretty much
unusable.  I've got to beleive that this is something unique to us since I
know that gdb is considered an excellent debugger.

So, what should we be looking at as a potential problem?  The application is
rather large is linked with about 10 of our own shared libraries - in
addition to whatever system libraries might be shared as well.  It uses g++
and is compiler with what think are the appropriate gcc flags for shared
libraries and debugging.  

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TIA!

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