Re: parallel loading of debug info in gdb

On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM Luis Machado <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/7/25 02:14, Yubin via Gdb wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does gdb supports parallel loading of debug symbols? I am debugging some
> > binary which is 3~4GB itself, and loading and parsing  its debug info
> takes
> > minutes.
>
> Since a few years, gdb has had worker threads, potentially as many as cores
> (physical or virtual) on the system.
>
> So it does support trying to read things in parallel. Unfortunately the
> nature of the data limits things somewhat, as you have dependencies and
> have
> to look those up before proceeding further.
>

Yes dependency is a problem, but some dependent libs
are  naturally independent to be read by parallel. If there could be some
way to specify this, it would be great.


> I've cc-ed Tromey, which worked in this area before.
>

Thanks.

Yubin