"w. v. ooijen / f. hanneman" wrote:
> 
> > When it is not necessary to switch RAM banks, the PIC's architecture is
> > generally quite nice.
> I agree, especially for the 14 bits.
> 
> > RAM banking, of course, causes most ideas of niceness to go out the
> window.
> Your examples show this: the nice 2-instruction
>    if ! a then b++
> explodes to 5 instructions (even without code paging).

It is interesting to see how much code space the banking 
actually hogs. I've noticed a trend of about 15%-27% 
depending on the program structure.

Scenix releived this problem very eloquently with their 
"BANK" commands.

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