Use probe-rs MemoryInterface::read() to make reads go faster - #722
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Some minor comments but LGTM. I think this is relatively low risk since arguably we are going back to the behavior we had before (and there's zero change to the net behavior)
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As a follow-up to #721, we realized that probe-rs changes have made
read_u8actually do u8 reads, which makes our bulk reading operations roughly 4x slower.This switches to the new
MemoryInterface::read()API, which does word-size reads (with some potential over-/under-reading), which we believe matches the oldread_8behavior.This has a noticable speed improvement for
flash --verify:As well as for
dump: