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.