Re: C vs C++ in Embedded Systems?

From: Dave Hansen (iddw_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:04:53 GMT

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:31:39 +0200, Anton Erasmus
<nobody@spam.prevent.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:27:03 GMT, iddw@hotmail.com (Dave Hansen)
>wrote:
>
[...]
>>FWIW, at the turn of the century I (briefly) worked on an application
>>using a (mumblemumble 500?) MHz Pentium running QNX and hosting 256 MB
>>RAM. The application itself wasn't that big (< 2 MB, IIRC), but it
>>sucked in huge volumes of (mostly image, but other kinds of mapping)
>>data for processing in real time. I won't claim it used all its
>>memory, but I know it used more than 128 MB.
>
>Yes, but most of the stuff was data. To have that much code is
>absolutely huge. What sort of application needs these massive amounts
>of code space. I am sure that many databases can basically grow to any
>size datawize.

Yes, that was my point. Memory holds more than programs.

In terms of conventional "embedded programming," we paid essentially
_no_ attention to the size of the application.

Regards,

                               -=Dave 

-- 
Change is inevitable, progress is not.

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