[Mspgcc-users] gdb slow ?

[Geoffrey Brown]

I'm evaluating these tools for a class I'm teaching next year (the other 
contender is the avr).
I've tried out the latest gdb on windows with a  mps430-P123M board from 
olimex. 

When executing to a line or stepping at the "C" level, execution seems 
extremely slow.
Coincidentally, when I first installed gdbproxy it seemed be hardwired 
in debug mode
and I noticed a huge amount of chatter when executing to a line (every 
machine instruction ?).

Does this seem like merely a configuration issue, or is the JTAG 
interface for GDB actually
very slow ?  I did install the packet size macros and other hints from 
this mailing list,
but the performance didn't change perceptibly.
Geoffrey Brown