optimization
Alternative opcodes
Submitted by Walter Banks on Tue, 2009-05-05 21:05. opcodes | optimizationA support question brought up an interesting optimization topic: alternative opcodes.
We've all heard stories of using undocumented or unofficial opcodes to squeeze out a few cycles' extra performance. It's much easier, not to mention safer, to work within the published instruction set but to approach it in novel ways.
Here's an example:
Optimization and Debugging
Submitted by Walter Banks on Thu, 2008-09-18 21:08. debugging | optimizationThere's an active discussion about optimization and debugging going on on comp.programming and comp.compilers.

Isn't hand-optimized code more efficient?
Submitted by Kirk Zurell on Wed, 2007-11-21 15:08. eTPU_C | optimizationThere is no technical reason why compiled code on the eTPU cannot be as tight as hand-optimized code. The ISO C standard for embedded systems overcomes previous C language limitations related to embedded.
There are three things that the eTPU_C compiler can do very well that hand optimization finds difficult.
- Computers are very good at accounting.
