On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Terry Harris<terry.harris@iname.com> wrote:
> But Microchip already differentiate their free and paid for C18, C30 and
> C32 compilers by crippling optimisation. The early versions of C32 were
> code size limited and they changed to optimisation crippling.
>
> Hi-Tech started to do what Microchip was already doing and now Microchip
> bought Hi-Tech you think it will change?
>
> The question is how crippled the compiler is without optimisation and I
> know Hi-Tech PICC Pro for the 10/12/16 is much worse than C30 and probably
> C32 (I haven't used C18 enough to judge).
>
> So yes the free Hi-Tech versions could do with being less crippled but
> perhaps the compiler architecture does not lend itself to just optimising=
 a
> bit.
>
> Personally I hope Microchip reduce (eliminate) =A0the maintenance costs of
> the Hi-Tech compilers, paying to get bugs fixed is the biggest turn off f=
or
> me.

Yes that will be quite good. Microchip's paying once and free upgrade
policy for C18/C30/C32 is really good. The pricing of C18/C30/C32 is
also very good. Hopefully Hitech's compiler will follow this soon.


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