[llvm] Add a release not about the lldb DWARF indexing speedup (PR #122870)

Pavel Labath via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jan 14 00:46:47 PST 2025


https://github.com/labath created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/122870

The figure includes works that's already committed. In does not include the WIP/RFC proposal in
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-speeding-up-dwarf-indexing-again/83979.

>From fc9bea6f20be0581508bce136176364d6b2bd720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Labath <pavel at labath.sk>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:43:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a release not about the lldb DWARF indexing speedup

The figure includes works that's already committed. In does not include
the WIP/RFC proposal in
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-speeding-up-dwarf-indexing-again/83979.
---
 llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.md b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
index c24dc1976b4d08..fd4aaaa76033ce 100644
--- a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
+++ b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
@@ -449,6 +449,8 @@ Changes to LLDB
           _regexp-bt        -- Show backtrace of the current thread's call ...
           _regexp-display   -- Evaluate an expression at every stop (see 'h...
   ```
+* DWARF indexing speed (for binaries not using the debug_names index) increased
+  by 30-60%, depending on the configuration.
 
 Changes to BOLT
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