Date:	Mon, 10 May 93 12:31:07 EDT
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	weisman AT osf DOT org
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: debug32 curiosity

> Why does debug32 seem to load symbols from large programs so
> slowly?  It (informally) seems very nonlinear wrt/the number
> of symbols.

Because it needs to traverse a binary tree which lives in virtual
memory, but the code is in real memory.  Thus, as the depth of the
tree increases the time per symbol increases also.

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