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

[Somorjai, Akos]

Just a faint idea, but would it be possible to trick the linker into
producing the output file (so that we wouldn't have a post-process)? It
parses the object files anyway.

Also, I think compiling dsymutil with llvm would give it a slight speed
boost (8-10% on our code base in general, hence my guess).

Best,

Ákos



On 9/26/11 6:57 PM, "Greg Clayton" <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:

>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
>> 
>