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Improve performance of looking up signatures. #2
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Turns out iterating byte-wise through a huge binary in python is very slow. Singular data point for a call to get_addr_from_sig for a signature on a 40 MB binary with ~125k functions: runtime in [s] | old | new -------------------+---------+------- sig in binary | 44.74 | 0.92 -------------------+---------+------- sig not in binary | 167.23 | 4.42
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Turns out iterating byte-wise through a huge binary in python is very
slow.
Singular data point for a call to
get_addr_from_sigfor a signature on a40 MB binary with ~125k functions: