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Re: more on gdb server
- To: Quality Quorum <qqi at world dot std dot com>
- Subject: Re: more on gdb server
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:53:27 -0400
- Cc: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.SGI.4.21.0107180948480.19012-100000@world.std.com>
>> I'm not convinced that the overhead is negligible. You're
>> inserting an additional program and network stack trip in one
>> of the two known time-critical parts of GDB.
>
>
> We can run it over UNIX sockets if performance is going to be an issue,
> however, I strongly doubt it - we are running our GUI this way and
> performance is not so bad.
I know HP were once playing with ideas that would have eliminated any
copying because they were finding memory read/write performance using
ptrace (or what ever) lacking.
enjoy,
Andrew