Re: What micros do you actually hate to work with?

Jonathan Kirwan <jkirwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've only had exactly one case in my entire professional life where I
was permitted to implement the exact same application, from top to
bottom, in both assembly and C.
We'd first decided upon the assembly route in the earlier incarnation
because of some tests we did with the earlier C compiler and the very
limited code space we had available to us in the available PICs that
were appropriate to the design. At that time, the PIC18 line of parts
was 'very new' and we still hadn't even been able to get samples. So
there was no way to consider it, seriously. We kept our eye on them,
though.

It would be interesting to know what the results would be *now*. After
all, compilers for brand new chips usually don't produce optimal code.
(Decisions made based on outdated information is IMO a big problem with
technical opinions. For instance a lot of the prejudice against C++ is
still based on benchmarks from first-generation compilers from the
1980s. Because it costs time, effort and money the results are rarely
revisited.)

-a
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