Slow stepping

[Vladimir Prus]

On Sunday 14 January 2007 11:23, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I would like to know if others see/feel that the debugging is quite 
> slow now. I have an AMD64 3200+, 1GB DDR RAM, gdb 6.6, and when I 
> execute a debugger command, it can take 3-4 seconds until the debugger 
> buttons are enabled. As I see the delay comes when the 
> 
> (gdb) -var-update *
> 
> command is executed.
> 
> Is it possible to speed this up? It makes stepping over quite annoying. 
> If the retrieving of variables really takes so much time, I'd suggest 
> one or both of the following:
> - don't retireve it, if the variables widget is hidden (and do it as 
> soon as it is shown)
> - delay the retrieval, and do it only if there was no debugging activity 
> for 1-2 seconds. 

Please enable debug output from debugger, disable debug output from
everything else and provide me with that debug output.
There's not much I can do otherwise.

- Volodya