Re: Pic, c programing

From: Don Taylor (dont_at_agora.rdrop.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:26:32 -0500

cbarn24050@aol.com (CBarn24050) writes:
>>Your statements that a C compiler for the PIC takes 5x the code or
>>10-100x the time of an AVR one is just plain silly and ill-informed.

>That isn't what I said.

Someone, several messages earlier in this thread made the comment that
using a C compiler would result in the 5x and 10-100x over assembly.
No particular processor family was mentioned. I believe that was where
this statement originated.

I was skeptical asked for plausible examples of this. No such examples
showed up but I did get email from one person suggesting that I try
to completely re-implement a project of his with my using C and see what
the comparison was. I haven't decided whether to try that or not.

>>. The CodeVision compiler I
>>used took more code space for floating point than my Hitech PICC
>>compiler on the PIC 16 series. I was not that impressed.

>Thats very suprising, I too would not be impressed.

Maybe I'm just using PIC and C for smaller projects, but I wouldn't
think of using floating point math on one of these to begin with :)

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