Will Cohen wrote:
When debugging some C++ program with gdb (both versions 5.3 and 6.0)
it takes a long time to load the debugging information and get a
command-line prompt. The particular example that demonstrates this
problem is monotone (http://www.venge.net/monotone/) which makes use
of the boost libraries (http://www.boost.org/). gdb loading monotone
with the associated debugging information takes over 30 seconds to get
the initial command-line prompt on a 1.7GHz Athlon with 512MB or DRAM.
30 seconds! Why, you young whipper-snapper... I remember when you
used to have to go get a cup of coffee while gdb loaded symbols! ;-)
Hell, sometimes you could go out and *buy* the coffee...