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gdb: howto speedup debugging on a very large binary ?

Is there a way to speed up gdb when it loads a very large c++ binary?

The binary I am talking about is about 50MB in a release build (no debug symbols)

A debug build is bigger then 400MB and gdb needs more then 2 minutes to load it.

Maybe there are some settings that speed up loading the application into gdb ?

Any help is very appreciated!

Environment: ubuntu karmic 64bit with gdb v6.8, 32GB Ram, 8 cpu-cores

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Begin by upgrading to GDB 7.0.1. GDB developers have spent quite a bit of effort in 2009 making GDB 7.0 faster (and there is more to come in 7.1 :-)

Employed Russian  2010-01-23 05:52:11
I tried GDB 7.0.1 - and it is somewhat faster indeed.
 2010-02-08 21:57:21

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