At 11:05 AM 08/21/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>And it's *obvious* to the programmer what it is?
>>
>>How can you tell *exactly* how many cycles a routine takes
>>without looking at the assembly code?
>
>I said I don't WRITE much assembly code, but I still READ it!
>
>The HiTech C compiler gives you the C with the assembly that it generates
in the
>.AS file.
>
>Andy
>

Ahh, so. "Deterministic timing" is whatever the compiler **gives** you,
whether it gives 10 cycles to code a loop, or 25 - whether a C instruction
gets coded into 1 cycle or 8. Slowly it's coming across.

best regards,
- danM

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