On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: > Josh Koffman wrote 2014-03-02 19:53: >> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Peter Johansson = wrote: >>> Be aware that Microchip provides a free 60 day demo for the licensed >>> optimizers. Once you have some experience writing in C you can >>> request a demo license and then compare the size and performance of >>> your code with and without optimization. >> >> I'm trying to avoid the free trial to be honest. If I'm going to >> commit to a compiler, I want it to work the same way, essentially >> forever. What if I work on this project, finish it within 60 days, >> then want to add a feature at day 75? I am happy to use the trial if I >> am reasonably sure I'm going to purchase it when the trial ends, but >> not as a means to do one project. >> >> Josh >> > > I think Peter ment it for evaluation, not for real development. > For that you should probably commit to one or the other. Yes, that was indeed what I meant. I am fairly certain that the demo license is for evaluation use only. But if you want to game the system, I suppose you could install in a VM with a hacked date/time library. -p. --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .