On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:32:34 -0700, you wrote:

>I think this was a really bad move on hi-tech's part.  It makes them  
>look bad, it makes compilers in general look bad.  I applaud (sort of)  
>the attempt at a new way of handling "free" versions of commercial  
>compilers, but I really hope that Microsoft decides that this is a  
>failed experiment and does something else in the future.

I assume you meant Microchip. Microchip do the same with time limited
evaluation and optimisation crippling thereafter for free. 

Microchip were doing this before Hi-Tech so perhaps Hi-Tech copied them.
The level of crippling is greater but I doubt it was deliberately so. Their
optimiser seems to be pretty much all or nothing so perhaps there was no
easy way to improve optimisation just a bit.

Previously Hi-Tech crippled the free version with size limits and support
for a very small subset of processors which is better? If you are targeting
a member of that small subset you can still use the old free version. 

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