At 01:05 AM 6/24/2003 +0200, Kyrre Aalerud wrote:

>I think I'll go and buy a monkey instead.
>(And a book about algorithms...)

See that takes YOUR time, which is limited, and expensive.
The idea is to use the machine time, which is readily available, and cheap.

Imagine a situation with MPLAB-20.
You do your programming during the day, and get the system grossly functional. Then you mark the areas you want optimized, specify the goals, and optimize for space, speed, or something else,  and go off to bed.  In the AM, you get a routine that might shave 1-2 instructions off a critical loop, but you didn't have to spend 2-3 days puzzling it out and debugging it.

Of course you need to test that it dosen't have any unexpected results either..

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