> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Carl Denk
> Sent: 08 July 2009 13:46
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: Is Hitech C deliberately slugging code in the 
> free version..?
> 
> Not an area where I have much expertise, but sounds like the 
> original compiler was poorly done, and a lots of patches call 
> optimizers are added. 

As someone else mentioned, HiTech cover a range of very different target
devices so compiler design is likely to biased towards ease of
targetting different architectures rather than efficient
pre-optimisation code generation of a single target familly.

Regards

Mike

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