Re: ****tability: Harmony between PC and microcontroller

Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote:

> On May 6, 1:40 pm, Chris Dollin <chris.dol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Your problem is not with ****tability; it's with performance.
> 
> They can be one in the same thing if the performance affects the
> usability of the product. If I ****t a web browser to a Nintendo gaming
> console, is it really a succesful ****t if it takes seven minutes to
> load a webpage? I don't think it is.

It's a nice hypothetical example, but that's all it is -- hypothetical.
If it actually happened that way, then one would profile the browser
and find out where the time went, and address the problem. I very
much suspect that sizes of integers would be a non-issue in this
case.

> Firstly, zero effort would go into making it perform equally well on
> both systems. It's just a matter of getting into the habit of using
> uint_fast8_t instead of unsigned int where possible.

In the kind of C code I've written, I think that would be
almost nowhere.

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