> If you're designing a commercial product, then it's long past time to > add more RAM, if a bit of extra optimisation seems tempting. Putting a > product out in the market, only to be unable to add features to the > platform, to keep pace with competitors, is a seriously suboptimal > strategy in many cases.
Problem is that Marketing never gets tired of adding new features, and won't remove old ones. To them a software change is 'free'. Something that upper management should address, and doesn't. Redesigning the hardware is complicated by regulatory approvals that can take years to get. Even just putting in a part with more memory that is otherwise the same, opens up the can of paperwork approvals. Also in some markets the twenty cents or so you might spend on a part with bigger RAM might have you lose out to those competitors that you mention, if you are making a high volume product. In some products the profit margin is simply to low to put in a better part. I have one Tiny2313 project that I use IAR for, because no amount of code refactoring and GCC optimizations fits the code produced by any version (3.3.x or later) of GCC in to the Tiny2313 for that project. _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
