> Relinking a super large program may take minutes, whereas loading gdb can get me a backtrace in 3-4 seconds! well, we have definitely opposite experiences :)

> Relinking a super large program may take minutes, whereas loading gdb can get me a backtrace in 3-4 seconds! well, we have definitely opposite experiences :) the main software I work on creates a ~1gb binary in debug mode and lld links that in a few seconds. Bud gdb and lldb, even with gdb-index, and all the optimizations I could find, both make startup slow enough that I can go for a coffee and it's not always finished loading when I'm back