At 15:49 04.12.96 +1000, you wrote:
>Not a suggestion as such, but can someone please confirm what I am seeing,
>so I know I'm not brain-dead; I'm running some code in MPLAB 3.12 simulator
>mode, on a Pentium 166, simulating a 4MHz '84. The simulator appears to be
>running at 1/3000th real time, i.e. it takes about 3 seconds real time to
>simulate 1 millisecond of execution time.  If so, that's unbelievably
>slow! Someone tell me I'm doing something wrong, please!

Clyde,

I think there is a programming flaw in the MPLAB-SIM (or in Windows?).
Try the following: move your mouse a slowly during simulation; you will
recognize a dramatically increased simulation speed.
Maybe, MPLAB-SIM waits between every PIC instruction for a Windows timer
interrupt (or s.t. like that), and if you move your mouse, MPLAB-SIM
receives a large number of mouse-events what might be enough, to trigger
next PIC instruction execution.
So, perhaps Microchip could change the philosophy of checking for user
input: not after every single PIC instruction but only after every 100 (or
so).

regards,

Wolfram


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| Wolfram Liebchen                                    |
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