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Re: [PATCH] symbol lookup cache
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 21:55:33 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] symbol lookup cache
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:14:39 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
> Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> > Btw, I wonder if this should be a user option, not a "maint" option.
> > The heuristics used to determine the cache size tend to be wrong in
> > some rare corner cases, so letting the user override this should be a
> > good thing, I think.
>
> The thought is the fewer knobs the user needs the better,
We are way past the point where this ideal was achievable. You can
stop worrying about that. With the gazillion knobs we have already,
one more doesn't change anything.