Hi At least on the code I've tried both ways, there's about a 2:1 difference in what you can get done on a low end PIC with assembly vs C. There are a lot of things you can get away with in assembler that drive a C compiler a bit nuts….
Bob On May 25, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Rex <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/25/2013 1:22 PM, Bob Camp wrote: >> If you are going to code on a cheap PIC (the PIC16 series) you will likely >> need to learn PIC assembler. All my coding on those parts was in assembly >> language. They are old enough / slow enough / small RAM enough that things >> like C (or the other high level languages you listed) really don't do well >> on them. >> >> > Several years back I did a bunch of stuff with various PIC16 series chips. > All of it, except for some minor assembler tweaks, was done in C. Glad I did > not know it wasn't practical. I would have wasted a lot of time coding it in > assembler. Of course my goal was just getting something done, not being > elegant or very efficient. Time-nutty stuff like TVB's frequency divider may > require the detail and efficiency only provided by assembler. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
