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Re: gdb performance is impossible!!
- To: Jake Colman <colman@ppllc.com>
- Subject: Re: gdb performance is impossible!!
- From: Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>
- Date: 08 Sep 1999 18:23:32 -0500
- Cc: gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <76hfl6olbx.fsf@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.
What operation, specifically, is slow?