[lldb-dev] Breakpoint + callback performance ... Can it be faster?

2016-08-16 Thread Benjamin Dicken via lldb-dev
I recently started using lldb to write a basic instrumentation tool for tracking the values of variables at various code-points in a program. I've been working with lldb for less than two weeks, so I am pretty new. Though, I have used and written llvm passes in the past, so I'm familiar with the cl

Re: [lldb-dev] Breakpoint + callback performance ... Can it be faster?

2016-08-16 Thread Benjamin Dicken via lldb-dev
r. This would eliminate some of > the context-switches and packet traffic while you were running in the hot > parts of your code. This is a decent chunk of work, however. > > Jim > > > > On Aug 16, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Benjamin Dicken via lldb-dev < > lldb-dev@lists.llv

Re: [lldb-dev] Breakpoint + callback performance ... Can it be faster?

2016-08-16 Thread Benjamin Dicken via lldb-dev
tion we've toyed with on and off is something like the gdb > "tracepoints" were you can upload instructions to perform "experiments" > when a breakpoint is hit to the lldb-server instance. The work to perform > the experiment and the results would all be kept in t