Bob Blick wrote:
>> The descendant of this program - pretty similar, I think - uses 925
>> words in BoostC.  As I recall, it was also around 1K in PICC Lite, and
>> around 2K in mikroC.
> 
> Sounds like BoostC and HiTech are both about as efficient as you can get,
> without user intervention.

That's been my experience with BoostC - I can usually hand-tune critical 
pieces in assembler and gain a bit, but in general it looks like they 
have a good optimizer.

> When I put LCDTerm on the web I wanted to make sure it would compile with
> PICCLITE, and noticed that it used about 5% more ROM than the paid-for
> version of HiTech C. Ram usage was the same between the two.

Interesting!  Not the way I'd slice those features if I were looking to 
hook people with the free version, but maybe there was a good reason.
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Timothy J. Weber
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