Re: Hash table based symbol lookup (was: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix symbol lookup for mips64* targets)

[Laurent Desnogues]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I hope I'm wrong, but it looks like in the worst case, for each byte
> that the symbol covers, this implementation can allocate a structure
> of tens of bytes in size. I wonder what the symbols of 1.5MB
> openbios-sparc64 would take.

No, you're right:  for each byte of a function a structure of about
5 * ptr size is allocated.  In your case, that'd be about 60 MB.
It's bad and can probably be reduced.  But just try to run in
debug mode (-d) any application that has thousands of
symbols and you'll soon see you have to disable symbol
lookup as its complexity is linear.

I can reduce memory consumption but its size will still be a
multiple of the text segment size.


Laurent