I have written PIC programs in assembly language for 4 years & have recently started using PROTON.I wrote a simple application in BASIC where a LCD is displaying the table of 2 in the form 2X1 2X2 etc. The compiled assembly code took a space of about 500 words.If I had written the same in assembly then I am sure that the same thing could have been written in 200 words max.Definitely there is a time advantage in code development ,but don't you guys feel that there ought to be some featute like code optimisation that can be turned on/off as required?