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Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

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376 points turrini | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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hexomancer ◴[15 Nov 24 13:04 UTC] No.42146531[source]▶
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?
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1. dzaima ◴[15 Nov 24 13:43 UTC] No.42146847[source]▶
A long time ago, "set use-deprecated-index-sections on" improved some things; don't know if any modern compilers need that anymore. I also have a "disable pretty-printer global builtin" in my ~/.gdbinit, though I don't recall what that was for, or if I even determined that to improve speed. Currently it seems "set style sources off" reduces some startup time. Don't think I've debugged anything your scale though, and I doubt any of my suggestions will actually help.