Ohms autoranging has been improved down to just under 4.5sec or so. They claim any faster and the meters would require recalibration. I don't know why they can't at least partially use the bargraph ADC for this.
Great news.
Will it be further reduced for the 2nd batch? Calibration will not be a problem since it would be from the factory.
The speed is basically based on algorithm used, a binary tree search would result in log(n) base2 where as linear (n). For example if linear search was taking 7 sec to reach extreme end (lowest range), then after binary search you can basically reduce time to 2.8 sec (log base 2 of 7 is 2.807355)
Now Dave is saying it is 4.5 sec, with a improved algorithm it can reduce to 2.16 sec. There are many ways to improve firmware speed, essentially they need to profile the code, reduce string copies if any, use all constant time data structures, remove unwanted calls to memory allocator (rather use object pools), check for cache hit analysis .. use simple array structures when possible and so on.
If they can install valgrind under quemu (if thats ported to STM32) you can do a much detailed profiling of the code. That way you can optimize the portions that are slowing down the meter. Not only it will make it run faster, it will also increase battery