> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olin Lathrop [SMTP:olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 7:25 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [PIC]:Hitec C W 17C processor Context saves
>
> It shows once again that on small
> resource limited systems compilers are for high level tasks or low level
> programmers.
>
That is most definately a wholy invalid and sweeping statement.  I don't
know about your line of work, but in mine time is money, most especialy time
to market.  Using a C compiler on complex projects cut's development time
dramaticaly.  I agree that if you are trying to squeeze every last cycle out
of a uP then there is no substitute for hand optimised assembler, but those
condtions would tend to suggest the wrong processor was chosen, or costs
needed to be trimmed to the last $0.0001.

Mike

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