12f629 vs ATtiny 11L

[tenaja]

Chuck Hellebuyck wrote a cool article on Nuts & Volts Magazine (April 2007, and June 2007). It did a quick comparison between different compilers, and I have to say was very surprised. PicBasic Pro fared extremely well.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason it did so well is because NV refuses to accept articles which contain the Proton compiler. If you eliminate the most competent alternatives, it is easy to say you are the best. And yes, I own both compilers.

[languer]

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason it did so well is because NV refuses to accept articles which contain the Proton compiler. If you eliminate the most competent alternatives, it is easy to say you are the best. And yes, I own both compilers.

This may be true. I have no evidence to prove or disprove this. I do want to make a disclaimer, I am not a PBP or Proton guy. I do own an old version of PBP but have not used it in a long while. I have used C for a long, long time now.

Regardless, after the initial article Chuck did get quite a bit of information from different camps (including myself from the C camp). And the reason I said I was quite surprised, was that for this test (and the test was quite simple - so one should not read too much into this) Proton and PBP achieved the same speed, as well as CCS C. And HiTech C was only slightly faster.

I believe the memory usage was better for the C compilers, but cannot say for sure without revisiting the articles and e-mail conversations.

Most important thing is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and what works for one may not work for the other.