Re: advice on choosing mcu

From: David Brown (david_at_no.westcontrol.spam.com)
Date: 06/04/04


Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 21:11:06 +0200


"Chris Hills" <chris@phaedsys.org> wrote in message
news:1$JPsQAmKKwAFAvX@phaedsys.demon.co.uk...
> In article <5h0wc.1057$Js1.907@newsfe1-win>, Roger
> <enquiries@rwconcepts.co.uk> writes
> >I agree that AVR would be well worth a look. The price vs performance is
> >very good and they are well supported with both free tools such as AVR
> >Studio (from the Atmel web site) and WinAVR (GNU C) and 3rd party
> >development tools (see avrfreaks.com).
>
>
> However the GNU G is hardly optimised.
>

I take it you mean GNU C...

I don't think gcc holds many records as being absolutely the best optomising
compiler available on any particular platform, but it is pretty solid on
many systems, and is generally close to all but the most expensive
commercial compilers. In particular, the front-end optomisations of gcc 3.4
are very impressive - they are driven by the big users of x86 and other
major ports, but work equally well on small ports - that's an advantage of
having a clear front-end / back-end split.



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