Kari Laine wrote:

> Anyway I don't see that Microchip would have made the C-compiler
> free. If I have understood right the optimization is turned off
> after evaluation period.
> Is this right?
> If so does it really mean something for a hobbyist entering PIC-field?

I can't speak with experience about the C18 compiler, but the C30 compiler
is a dandy compiler, even the free version.  After an evaluation period,
SOME optimizations are turned off, but most of the time they are barely
noticeable to the hobbyist anyway.

Even unoptimized code generated by the C30 compiler is far better than the
code emitted by any of the 8 bit compilers I've looked at (and I've looked
at a lot).  But then, the 16 bit architecture lends itself to compiled
code better than the 8 bit.

--McD


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