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Re: mudflap problem

dgraham wrote:

> [...]  I suspect that most of the cost is in backtrace_symbols().
> Couldn't the conversion to symbolic names just be done when an error
> occurs, rather than every time a backtrace is captured?

That is a possibility.  It might lose some information, should the
program layout change due to e.g. shared libraries, but that's a small
price to pay for the probable speed increase.  You could test the
theory approximately by disabling HAVE_BACKTRACE_SYMBOLS.

- FChE
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