Subject: Re: bug#9599: 24.0.50; xbacktrace very slow

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:00:24 -0400

> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:00:38 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> CC: [email-masked]
> Reply-to: [email-masked]
> 
>     Can you show a precise recipe starting with "emacs -Q"?
> 
> gdb emacs
> source .gdbinit
> b Finternal_complete_buffer
> r
> C-x b Mes TAB
> xbacktrace

With this recipe and GDB 7.3, xbacktrace takes 0.79 sec on fencepost.

To show execution times of GDB commands, type "maint time" once in the
beginning of the session.  AFAIK, this command should be available in
GDB 6.8 as well.