----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wouter van Ooijen" <wouter@voti.nl>


> > Think about it.  Work out your estimate time to upload the program vs.
the
> > total time to write it and debug it.
>
> I don't think this is as clear-cut as you think. I have done work were
> this was 1:100, but there have been extreme cases where it was more like
> 100:1.

Hmm 100 hrs of program upload time vs 1 hr of programing and debugging?
That must have been one extreme case!  Ouch!  (Surely, you must mean
something else.)


>And that was just developing, imagine that you must burn a lot of
> those chips (worst case: a number just below where it would make sense
> to let someone else do it).

Production programming is another issue.

In reality we are only talking a difference on the order of seconds between
ICSP and bootloading each round.  Even if you have to reprogram, say, 100
times that only works out to a few minutes.

IMHO it is more important to implement the method that is easiest for you.
You will save the most time that way.

Regards,

Gordon Williams

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