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Article #1217Re: Microchip buys Hi-Tech Software
From: John Devereux
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:39
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:39
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"Joel Koltner" <zapwireDASHgroups@yahoo.com> writes: > "Nico Coesel" <nico@puntnl.niks> wrote in message > news:49baa239.1285504281@news.planet.nl... >> Good question. The traditional PIC is soon to be overtaken by the ARM >> derivatives. > > For some markets, sure... but in many commodity items like remote controls it > doesn't make sense to use a $1 32-bit ARM when a $0.10 8-bit PIC still works > just fine. > >> An excellent version of GCC is available for the PIC32 (MIPS based) >> platform. So why bother buying a compiler manufacturor? > > GCC for microcontrollers has never been as good as the best commercial > compilers in code size or performance... Ah, but we are now in an era where the "microcontrollers" of today have the cores of the 32 bit processors that GCC was written for. I would certainly trust GCC on a 32 bit machine, over something derived from, say, some line of "PIC compilers"! -- John Devereux
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