On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:27:52AM -0300, Claudio Grasso wrote:
> mspgcc-20030506.exe
> Everything seems to work OK but I noticed a substantial
> difference in the time it takes to download programs to the MSP. What
> I don't know is if the difference is due to the different OS the
> different machines or the different version (or maybe different
> defaults in gdbproxy/giveio).
I have done some tests, and obviously newer version of gdbproxy
are getting slower and slower (I only exchanged the gdbproxy.exe
and I can reproduce it):
msp430-gdbproxy.exe --port=2000 msp430
MSP43~22 EXE 1,366,195 03-03-03 12:40p msp430-gdbproxy.exe
Erasing target flash - all... Erased OK
Loading section .text, size 0x90e lma 0xf000
Loading section .vectors, size 0x20 lma 0xffe0
Start address 0xf000, load size 2350
Transfer rate: 4700 bits/sec, 37 bytes/write.
Breakpoint 1, main () at main.c:48
same exe, with debug enabled:
Erasing target flash - all... Erased OK
Loading section .text, size 0x90e lma 0xf000
Loading section .vectors, size 0x20 lma 0xffe0
Start address 0xf000, load size 2350
Transfer rate: 3133 bits/sec, 37 bytes/write.
MSP43~22 EXE 229,376 05-06-03 10:53a msp430-gdbproxy.exe
(gdb) Erasing target flash - all... Erased OK
Loading section .text, size 0x90e lma 0xf000
Loading section .vectors, size 0x20 lma 0xffe0
Start address 0xf000, load size 2350
Transfer rate: 648 bits/sec, 37 bytes/write.
MSP43~20 EXE 283,589 11-25-03 9:58a msp430-gdbproxy.exe
(debug enabled by default???)
Erasing target flash - all... Erased OK
Loading section .text, size 0x90e lma 0xf000
Loading section .vectors, size 0x20 lma 0xffe0
Start address 0xf000, load size 2350
Transfer rate: 254 bits/sec, 37 bytes/write.
The oldest (and largest) version is the fastest one. This is quite independent
from the --debug flag. Steve, any idea what's wrong?
Matthias
