At 10:20 PM 5/19/2006 +0200, you wrote:

>True, but if you are comparing core (instruction) widths the 16F PICs
>are 14-bit cores, so the difference with a 16-bit core thumb-mode-ARM is
>vanishingly small.
>
>Wouter van Ooijen

Not instruction width, code density. How many K bytes does an entire
application take coded for core A vs. core M? That determines the area
of silicon required to store the program for a given technology.

There are many factors which affect this at the best of times, and it's
prone to marketing exaggerations such as the old Microchip ads which
misleadingly claimed a large savings of code space over Motorola (now
Freescale).

>Best regards,

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