Lots of debug symbols are being loaded at every application start

[flexorx]

Working on VS 17.7.0 Preview 1 (same applies to all previous versions). Python is the default one (3.9.13), shipped with Visual Studio distro. Appears that it doesn't ship debug symbols, unlike a vanilla Python installed from official Python distro. We have a C++ project which uses Python code via pybind11. In a pretty regular way, so I am not sharing the code. When we start the project in this configuration for debugging using "Python/Native Debugging", lots of messages like

Loaded 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python39_64\Lib\site-packages\pandas\_libs\parsers.cp39-win_amd64.pyd'. Module was built without symbols.

start to flow in to Output window. It can take a minute before the app is actually started, every time. Varying options in "Tools → Options → Debugging → Symbols", especially for caching settings, doesn't help. Is there any way to address it? Debugging experience is terrible because of this time waste at every start.

[TimKoenigIFF]

We have exactly the same issue in our group. It is very annoying and actually mixed-mode debugging with C++ and Python is unusable for us at the moment.

[chentasker]

Any update on this?