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debugging mozilla with gdb is so slow
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- Subject: debugging mozilla with gdb is so slow
- From: bstell at netscape dot com (Brian Stell)
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:43:22 -0800
I find that using gdb to debug Mozilla very slow.
It is so slow that I find many (most?) Linux Mozilla
developers use printfs because they "need to get work done".
My startup time (time to the first moz window) is really
long when I use gdb:
Mozilla no gdb: 11 sec
Mozilla with gdb: 125 sec
This does not seem to meet the goal in the gdb docs:
GDB should be responsive to the user. A programmer
hot on the trail of a nasty bug, and operating under
a looming deadline, is going to be very impatient of
everything, including the response time to debugger
commands.
(http://www.math.psu.edu/doc/emacs/info/gdbint.info-1)
Gdb itself comes up fairly fast ~ 5-10 sec. This long
start delay makes it basically unusable.
I have a 500MHz P3 Linux Redhat 6.2 system with 512M ram.
Any thoughts?
Brian Stell