AVR-Chat

On Aug 8, 2012, at 7:00 AM, bayramdavies wrote:

> I have used Studio 6 and hate it, so this is not good news for me.  Studio 6 is typical Microsoft bloatware and slows everything to a crawl.

The problem is its written in .Net, so its not native code. Apple ran PowerPC code faster on Intel than native on PowerPC but Microsoft can't seem to make a pseudocode machine run 1/10th the native CPU speed. There are an awful lot of Visual Basic fans who refuse to go beyond VB6 because of mandatory .Net turns their GHz computers back about 10 years into MHz.

After boot Atmel Studio takes 3 minutes to boot on my XP Pro quad CPU 3.0 GHz development box.

It and its latest gcc were driving me bonkers in the debugger for having moved things around worse than Freescale's Metrowerks compilers. Quite often the Atmel debugger breaks occur AFTER the desired line. Spending more time in disassembly view than I have in years.

The new library format seems to put everything possible in header files as "inline static" (or is it "static inline"?) which is also a pain to single step debug.

And sadly the XPLAIN A3BU is about 1 step newer than 4.18 supports. No time to select a different CPU or hack support back into 4.18.

Atmel Studio 6.0 is bad enough to tempt me to download Linux as nothing but an AVR development host.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.