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Originally Posted by hmong337
Honestly, the biggest drawback for me would be load time of the tune file with the OFT. Dyno time is at a premium and it would be hard facing precious tuning time being lost to file writing- even for the smallest changes. That's sorta the debate I'm having with the OFT. I am okay to drop ~$1000 for the Ecutek stuff but their business model stinks and would rather just avoid them entirely. I can't do a standalone EMS because of emissions laws in my region so I'm left with not much else. I guess I will continue to lurk around OFT and see what happens? But for real, OFT and it's monitoring and logging capabilities are worth the $500 alone.
Is there anyway to speed up file write times?
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Speeding up writes times is easy. It just involves writing a small portion of the ROM (where the mapping data is located) instead of the whole ROM. This would reduce write times to 30 sec versus 5 minutes.
The problem with this is that it can be risky if the user doesn't know what he is doing. It's would be possible to write a portion of a ROM into a ROM file that isn't compatible. Which would result in a corrupt file and a possibly nonrecoverable ECU. This is not to say that we will never offer partial writing. But it is something that takes a good amount of time to implement correctly with sufficient safeguards for the end user.