On Oct 25, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Sam wrote:

> Some say that using assembler your are more "in control" of how code
> will be placed in memory after building and that generally assembler
> is faster. Is it true?
>
Yes, it's probably true.  The question is "how often do you actually
need that sort of control or that (usually small) increment of speed?"
MOST programs do not need to be as small and fast as possible; they
only need to be small enough and fast enough.


> I would prefer to write code in C because writing it is faster.

Also true "in general."  There are times I've spent a long while trying
to get a compiler to do something tricky, eventually giving up and
taking the 10 minutes it takes to write the function in assembler.
As other have pointed out, you probably need to understand a good bit
of assembler before you can write C programs for a microcontroller
anyway...

BillW

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