While profiling the DWARF reader, I noticed that
partial_die_info::read creates a vector to store attributes. However,
the vector is not needed, as this code only processes a single
attribute at a time.
This patch removes the vector. On my machine, this improves the time
of "./gdb ./gdb" from 2.22 seconds to 1.92 seconds (mean times over 10
runs).
Note that the attribute is initialized by read_attribute, so it does
not need any special initialization. Avoiding this also improves
performance a bit.
Tested on x86-64 Fedora 30. I'm checking this in.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-04-02 Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
* dwarf2/read.c (partial_die_info::read): Do not create a vector
of attributes.
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