To whoever was looking for a benchmark run on CCS "C"...

You got me interested so I downloaded the CCS C demo compiler, which is=20
supposedly the full production optimizations for 45 days. I was not able to=
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get it to work with MPLAB/MPSIM so I wasn't able to get benchmark numbers=20
from it. I did look at the generated code and it was _awful_ compared to=20
Microchip's C30. The first example of this was using a loop of 5 or 6=20
instructions to shift values bit-by-bit instead of using the barrel shifter=
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built into the PIC24. It really looks like the 16-bit support in this=20
compiler was just a tweaked version of the 8 bit world. It doesn't even use=
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the stack, or registers to pass parameters and store locals.

-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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