Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

Slightly off topic but I think it is a good place to ask: One of the few things from windows that I miss when using linux is the debugging experience with visual studio (not code). When debugging a medium-sized C++ project on windows, the launch of the debug build is pretty fast and stepping over lines is almost instantaneous. On linux launching the executable using gdb takes like 10 seconds loading modules and stepping over each line takes like half a second which I think is intolerable (lldb is even worse). Yet I don't see people complaining about this online very much. Am I missing something? E.g. is there a compiler flag that speeds up debug launch time and step speed that I am not using?

Yea, our software stack pulls many dependencies (our software probably totals over 200k loc). We depend on Qt, OpenCASCADE, and a few other heavy C++ Libraries. Stepping over a single line of code in GDB using the TUI can take 3-5 seconds in the worst case. I’ve been meaning to investigate or profile it further when I get the time, but it functionally means I avoid using the debugger except as a “last resort”, or only using it to catch segfaults or unhandled exceptions.

It’s very odd. It’s like it doesn’t cache something and ends up doing some strange expensive symbol search every time it hits a breakpoint or something.

Curious if anyone has a good solution to this also