On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:26 -0700, Harley Shanko wrote:
> >Helps a lot if you close any watch/memory/SFR windows you're not using
> 
> But, one needs to watch SFR, IMO, for most debugging.

But all of them? Depending on the PIC it can take a LONG time to update
the whole SFR window. Put only the SFRs you actually need to watch in
the "watch" window, close the SFR window and see if it improves the
speed.

> Thanks to all who had suggestions.  I recall originall, it seems it only
> took a second or two to step to the next instruction.  No fun being in
> 'debuggers hell deep in molassas!'

It should only be a second or two.

Only other case I can think of is if you are single stepping, and the
line of code you are at resolves to several op codes, it can take many
"steps" to actually get to the next line of code. This can happen in
HLLs, where one line of the HLL actually translates into several lines
of ASM, resulting in the "single" step taking quite a while.

Personally I never single step, I always use break points, much faster.

TTYL

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