Why is DDD so slow ?

[Markus . Grunwald]

Hello,

We have a quite large project here: The binary (including debug info) is 
64MB big. When I open it with ddd, it takes about 30 seconds until I can 
start my debug session (i.e. 30s untill the code appears). 

What do I do first ? Select the sourcefile, where I want to set my 
breakpoint. The comfortable way would be File->Open Source. But this takes 
another 90 seconds till the dialog appears ! If I want to filter out some 
files, there go the next 90s ...

Of course, I never use File->Open Source because of this slowness. But a 
newbee here looked with very big eyes at me as I showed him this: His 
debugger in kdevelop has none of these annoyancies: He can start debugging 
immediately and has a nice combobox where he can switch sourcefiles on the 
fly.

Since both are "just" using gdb, I think ddd does something wrong.

Now don't get me wrong: I like ddd so much that I use it allthough it is 
so slow. But couldn't you do something to improve performance in these two 
points ?


Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Markus Grunwald
Softwareentwicklung

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