In SX Microcontrollers, SX/B Compiler and SX-Key Tool, JonnyMac wrote:

Having worked with SX/B for a long time I think it's fair to say that it lives somewhere between PBASIC (very full featured BASIC) and Assembly (blazing speed, do what you want, not as easy to code for beginners).  I think it's a good balance of abilities.  The cool thing is as you learn neat assembly tricks from gurus like Peter (pjv) you can incorporate them into you SX/B programs (SX/B supports Assembly code blocks).  You may ultimately switch to pure Assembly, but you don't have to -- SX/B produces very nice code and if you structure your code like an Assembly programmer would, the results are fairly compact.

Remember, SX/B compiles to straight assembly -- now, it will never be quite as fast as properly designed, hand-coded Assembly, but it will absolutely run circles around the same program running on a BASIC Stamp.

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