On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 03:36:05PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi, > > On 2017-07-12 17:32:25 -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > If you want perf to be able to use ORC instead of DWARF for user space > > binaries, that's not currently possible, though I don't see any > > technical blockers for doing so. Perf would need to be taught to read > > ORC data. > > Right, that's what I was hoping for. > > > > And I think it should be possible to convert DWARF to ORC, assuming the > > DWARF data is trusted. We could probably add an objtool subcommand for > > that. > > That'd be pretty helpful.
Can I ask why? Is DWARF too slow, or is it something else? -- Josh
