[sdiy] Beginner questions

[Oliver Keller]

Hi Jim, 

so you code in C and C++ most of the time ? Is this possible for 
programming time-critical programs - like a sequencer - too ? Didn´t do 
anything in Assembler yet, just had a glance at it during my studies. C 
would be ok, since I wrote some code already plus it´s a language with a 
structure I know.

Do you see any difference in performance when comparing C to C++ ? Is 
OOP eating up too much performance ?

About the choice 68xxx vs AVR cs PIC : Beside the instruction set, I think 
about availability (should be a standard) and scalability (is it possible to 
get a faster model or more features like RAM, IO etc without learning a 
complete new processor). I understand the Motorolas are very good here, 
but I can´t find them in the catalogues... So it seems to narrow down 
between PIC and AVR... BTW : What are the standard models used for 16-
bit processing ? THere´s a lot of 8 bit stuff out there, but....

The links gave me some good ideas, thank you again. expect some 
questions later :-)

Has someone worked with MIDIshare or Jazz ? These are PC based 
applications and I thought it may be easier to plug in some hardware and 
write some code than re-inventing the wheel ...



Later,


Oliver