Re: [PATCH] Speed up target_read_string

Daniel Jacobowitz
2011-08-20T21:11:05Z

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:11:02 +0200, Luis Machado wrote:
>> The following change is aimed at increasing the performance of
>> target_read_string for remote debugging. To accomplish that, the
>> buffer has been increased to 64 bytes and we now use
>> target_read_partial instead of target_read_memory.
>
> As this is implementation of
>        [RFC] Make target_read_string faster over high-latency links.
>        http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-07/msg00391.html
>
> where Daniel had concerns about some embedded targets without a reply I guess
> you are aware of these issues (I am not).
>

For avoidance of doubt, I'll defer to Luis and Pedro on this topic.

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Thanks,
Daniel