[pushed] Add a NEWS entry for multithreaded symbol loading
Commit Message
Sourceware to Gerrit sync has submitted this change.
Change URL: https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/c/binutils-gdb/+/725
......................................................................
Add a NEWS entry for multithreaded symbol loading
Just to let people know that this is available and how to use it.
Also updates the description of the setting to say the default is 0.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2019-11-26 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
* NEWS: Mention the new multithreaded symbol loading.
Change-Id: I263add6aae03b523f0870ad4d1e972eada4b382a
---
M gdb/NEWS
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Approvals:
Tom Tromey: Looks good to me, but someone else must approve
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@
with extensions .gdb, .py and .scm are supported as long as GDB was
compiled with support for that language.
+* GDB now supports multithreaded symbol loading for higher performance.
+ This feature is still in testing, so it is disabled by default. You
+ can turn it on using 'maint set worker-threads unlimited'.
+
* Python API
** The gdb.Value type has a new method 'format_string' which returns a
@@ -152,7 +156,7 @@
maint set worker-threads
maint show worker-threads
Control the number of worker threads that can be used by GDB. The
- default is "unlimited", which lets GDB choose a number that is
+ default is 0. "unlimited" lets GDB choose a number that is
reasonable. Currently worker threads are only used when demangling
the names of linker symbols.