Just wanted to revive this thread and ask/ponder on a few things.

I have a fairly simple little program I am playing with in PBPro
(cd8.14/PBP2.42)
It's all of 135 lines including loads of remarks (about 50 lines actual
code) and
about 610 instructions. This is pretty much my complete program.

With remarks its 3.5k If I drop all the remarks its 1.1k. The resulting hex
file
after I compile and assemble is 3.5K. Which might prove interesting fitting
into 1K of space unless I have things wrong and it will fit?.

That is the reason I am curious as to what compiler will put out the
smallest code.
I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in creating a test set and
compiling them.
Ie a simple common task using the same test pic type ie 628, the code is
frozen and
  just compiled and compared.

Of course each  language would have its own test set but there would be as few
changes as possible made to make it work on each compiler. The C should be
the most
portable with few changes.

I know this is a bit of a time waster but the results might be worth knowing.

Dave

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