The cost of stack traces

Thu May 11 10:08:00 GMT 2006

One thing that seems almost to have got completely lost in all this
talk about how to make stack traces faster is the sheer pointlessness
of it all. Many (if not most) of the installed gcj-compiled libraries
don't have debuginfo and usually no-one cares about the line numbers
anyway.
One thing we could do is detect libraries with no debuginfo and from
that point onwards not bother looking for it.
By all means let's make the traces faster but there are surely better
uses of our time.
Andrew.