How slow is pic basic pro

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How fast is pic basic pro in relation to other languages, c asm etc. Are we talking orders of magnitude or a minor speed increase. Im currently playing with mp3 + colour graphic displays and I need more speed.

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[Normnet]

How fast is pic basic pro in relation to other languages, c asm etc. Are we talking orders of magnitude or a minor speed increase. Im currently playing with mp3 + colour graphic displays and I need more speed.

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I think the speed you need is more likely to be found in the series of PIC rather than the compiler.
mp3 + color graphics may require a DSP.

Norm

[Charles Linquis]

PBP is fast for most operations, and if you need more speed in certain circumstances, you can just code in ASM.

But I don't think you will have luck decoding MP3 in software with any 8 bit chip. When you are dealing with data that is 16 bits or larger, 8 bit processors are less than half as fast as 16 bit devices running the same clock speed.

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Im using an mp3 decoder chip to decode the audio but the problem is the data transfer rate the best I can decode is a 64Kbit mono mp3 using hardware spi pulling the data directly from a spi flash chip. Ive even tried a parallel flash chip. But it seems the overhead is pic basic pro. If I do need 16bit pic does anyone know when the new version of pic basc pro would be released. I was told it would be early 2012 but so far no more news.

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