[lldb-dev] Problem with large sym files (dsymutil speed)

[Greg Clayton]

Ok, run the commands on your main executable that looks at all .o files and let me know what sizes it comes up with. I am guessing you probably can't file a bug and attach your executable and .o files? (no source would be needed). If I can reproduce the issue, I can fix it.

Greg Clayton

On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Somorjai, Akos wrote:

> It's at least 39 MB-s; I can't tell exactly because dsymutil bails out (the original problem). 
> I have a feeling that we are going in circles :)
> 
> Best, Ákos
> 
> 2011.09.26. dátummal, 18:57 időpontban "Greg Clayton" <gclayton at apple.com> írta:
> 
>> If you are linking a single architecture, unfortunately there isn't much you can do. Linking DWARF is a serialized process where we take DWARF from a bunch of .o files and then make a single out file. All DWARF sections have to be appended to one another and they have interdependencies, so even though dsymutil does use multi-threading to parse 8 .o files ahead, it doesn't help in the long run. clang and llvm-gcc make debug info that is around 4 times bigger that gcc, so this probably makes things worse for you guys.
>> 
>> How big is your dSYM file? 
>> 
>> On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Somorjai, Akos wrote:
>> 
>>> Greg,
>>> 
>>> Another issue is dsymutil's speed; it takes about 10 minutes to run it on
>>> our main executable, which is more than unbearable. Is their anything we
>>> can do to reduce that time?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Akos
>>> 
>>