[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [WIP] [lldb][Progress] Report progress when completing types from DWARF (PR #91452)

[Jonas Devlieghere via lldb-commits]

JDevlieghere wrote:

> My understanding was that the progress increment is designed to be really cheap (writing two pointers) and that it's up to presentation layer to decide a t what frequency to update the UI.
> 
> @JDevlieghere — is that perception correct?

You're correct about the presentation layer, but creating the progress reports isn't free and more recently we've added some bookkeeping to coalesce them. In the grand scheme of things they should be relatively cheap, but like timers I wouldn't put them in hot loops. 

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/91452