[llvm] 7900769 - [llvm][Docs] Add a release note about the lldb DWARF indexing speedup (#122870)

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Author: Pavel Labath
Date: 2025-01-14T15:54:19+01:00
New Revision: 7900769985ee4994870f7dfb2a505b8c41b38740

URL: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/7900769985ee4994870f7dfb2a505b8c41b38740
DIFF: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/7900769985ee4994870f7dfb2a505b8c41b38740.diff

LOG: [llvm][Docs] Add a release note about the lldb DWARF indexing speedup (#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.

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Modified: 
    llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.md

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diff  --git a/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.md b/llvm/docs/ReleaseNotes.md
index bf753ccee4c591..ebfa453d92d37d 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%](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/118657).
 
 * Minidumps generated by LLDB now support:
   * 64 bit memory (due to 64b support, Minidumps are now paged to disk while being written).