Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> I've been thinking about how to make OpenOCD faster.
>
> One challenge is that there are things that can be done
> that will make OpenOCD run faster that are target
> specific.
>
> It can take quite a bit of effort from the user to read up
> on all the weird and wonderful obscure options & tinker
> with them to get the maximum performance.
>
> Here is an idea:
>
> add a tcl proc "speed" that takes an argument 1-5(say).
> by default speed is 1, 5 is fastest.
>
> the default implementation will disable ircapture and
> jtag verify at speed 2.
>
> A target script can reimplement this tcl proc and
> also the help text for this tcl proc.
>
> The user can then use a "polymorphic" approach to
> try to speed things up. Also he can read up on
> the target config script what the "speed" command
> does for that target.
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>   
Will this increase the number of help mails or decrease them ?

It is not a bad idea, but may I suggest that the speed  command also 
prints the
name and value of all config settings used, or do we use speed info for 
that ?
 
Regards
Magnus

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