On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Danny Miller <dannym@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm admitting that in my ONE test, HiTech generated faster code, but I
> think it's an anomaly.  C18 is supposed to be at least comparable though
> I'm not sure who to listen to there.
>
> C18 has a smarter overall architecture anyways, IMHO.  The differences
> are subtle.  IIRC one of the weird things with PICC18 was that you could
> declare, use, and pass ROM constant data pointers the same was as you do
> RAM pointers.  That sounds convenient at first but then you wonder how
> that works since RAM and ROM pointers would be accessed by completely
> different means.  The thing is they pulled some funky tricks under the
> hood to make it work that way that cause problems in some circumstances,
> probably slows it down a lot of the time too.
>
> So I'm not sure if HiTech would be faster or slower, but I think C18 was
> smarter overall anyways.  And you can download Student Edition free from
> Microchip.  I'd need to see a compelling reason to drop it for a third
> party compiler.
>
> Danny
>

I really like the HI-TIDE IDE. Does C18 work with HI-TIDE?

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