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From: cohen@eagle.austin.ibm.com (/100000)
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Subject: Re: AIX 3.1 dbx problem
Keywords: AIX dbx virtual memory SLOW
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Date: 21 May 91 13:01:47 GMT
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> 2. What is dbx doing on start-up that takes so long?  My guess is that
>    it's building symbol tables (& related activities) for every module
>    in the program, as well as in the shared libraries (which, I should
>    mention, were compiled with the -g flag).  If that is the case, why does
>    dbx need to resolve all this info at start-up?  Can't it delay this stuff
>    and do it as necessary (on a demand basis)?

There is a new flag (-f) you can use to speed up start-up time.   This flag
does what you suggest and reads in symbol table information on demand.


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