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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, per.nordlow@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Sluggish Interface to GDB
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:16:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4gdg86b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18737.61202.82167.359075@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>

> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:40:34 +1300
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> This is too general to be a useful bug report unless it happens for all program
> that you debug.  I don't see it debugging Emacs.  It probably is Emacs that
> makes it slow but have you tried gdb on your program from the command line?
> What happens there?  How deep is your stack?  Have you got many watch
> expressions in the speed bar? large numbers of local variables?  lots of extra
> RAM?  which GUD related buffers to you have open?, etc, etc...

It might be a good idea to introduce an optional feature whereby GUD
would time-stamp the commands it sends to GDB and the responses it
gets.  Then at least the time spent waiting for GDB would be instantly
visible.




      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-30  4:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-29 20:16 Sluggish Interface to GDB Nordlöw
2008-11-30  1:40 ` Nick Roberts
2008-11-30  4:16   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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