Lpc2000

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Moffitt" <rodlist@...>
To: <lpc2000@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: [lpc2000] On KEILs Dhrystone benchmarks --again


> Great work Thiadmer!
>
> I personally ignore benchmarks because most of the time the results are
> skewed one way or another, and rarely are the test parameters and raw
> results publicized.
>
> If anyone from Keil is lurking on this list I would highly recommend
> responding. It either appears that your techs borked the tests or used
> some sort of 'invalid' test setup. In either case I recommend re-running
> the tests, and this time providing the raw tests results. In case you made
> a mistake I would suggest an apology on your web site.
>
> On a side note, I use GNU tools not because of the speed/power (either for
> or against) however because of the openness of the source. I have used
> many closed-source tools and each vendor has let me down at least once
> with support (no matter what large or small company I worked for). With
> GNU I can always take a look at the source in case of a problem. And (more
> importantly!) I can choose WHATEVER OS I want for development thanks to
> having source for all the tools.
>
> On another side note: at work I work with QNX, and guess what their
> compiler is? It's referred to as 'qcc' yet in fact it is GCC (2.95.3 and
> 3.3 at the moment). Many other closed source vendors in fact use GCC, yet
> don't necessarily publicize the fact. So if anyone ever thinks GCC is not
> 'good enough' for real embedded development, think again!

Microchip uses gcc in the C30 compiler for their new dsPIC devices - it 
works very well. As with most DSP compilers, the libraries are written in 
assembler.

Leon
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Leon Heller, G1HSM
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