PICdude wrote:
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> I found some nice C tutorials with ROM/RAM size comparisons by
> googlium ( http://www.gooligum.com.au/ ), and will repeat the same
> code for the compilers I'm evaluating (MikroC, SourceBoost).  However
> I would've felt better if the author compared a larger piece of code,
> say close to the 2K limit, using a wider set of library functions.

Well, the author (me!) was writing tutorials on individual topics like how
to use a timer or ADC, with the comparisons mainly intended to be with the
assembler versions of those same lessons, so that the reader can get some
sense of why you might use assembler vs C, and how the use of library
functions in CCS can make your source code a fair bit smaller (rough proxy
for "easier to write"), but that it often doesn't optimise as well as
Hi-Tech C or hand-written assembler (with Hi-Tech sometimes creating tighte=
r
code than my assembler examples), and to illustrate some "gotchas" such as
the way that careless use of maths expressions in C code can lead generated
code size blow-out.  The intent wasn't a general benchmarking exercise.

But I'm glad that someone found those comparisons useful!

Regards,

David Meiklejohn
www.gooligum.com.au



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