On 14/02/12 13:30, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi, > > Added Tom to the CC, see thread here: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/24055/focus=24096 > (Although it seems posts from non-subscribers, aka me, are not allowed, > so you won't see my earlier reply there. I'll send it to you separately.) > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 01:07:20PM +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: >> On 14/02/12 11:52, Michael Meeks wrote: >>> On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 16:06 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
[snip] >>> Lubos was talking of using some more magic / smaller debug option >>> in the past: -gdwarf-4 >>> >>> Are you using that ? I believe we turned it off by default again for >>> some reason or other: potentially we want to add a check for a tolerably >>> recent toolchain and debugger on the system before defaulting to that >>> [ it supposedly saved 30% of the size ], but you need gdb 7.3 really. >> >> no, AFAIR Lubos enabled that on master and there were some problems with >> it (gdb was horribly slow or something), so he disabled it again a week >> later. > > That really needs some investigation (which is why I added Tom to the CC) > recent GDB versions improved startup performance a lot, so if enabling > DWARF4 would make GDB startup slower again (which surprises me) that > would be really bad. Especially since DWARF4 is now the default at least > on Fedora. > > Could you give some more specifics about what was tried, what the original > startup times for gdb were and how much change you saw? hi Mark, Tom, the revert is here, which includes a link to a gdb bug: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e87fc0bfde8bd48b449e123c1bdd28e1359e8c77 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13498 regards, michael _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice