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Re: About firmwares
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 20 Oct 2001 07:22:14 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Steve Baker) writes:

Hi, I'm a newbie on RCX, I just start to work on the RCX
and I heard about LegOS and LejOS, I´m worry about the
speed of the LejOS vs LegOS, Can someone tell me
something about it?

Well, LejOS is Java-based and Java is an interpreted
language - so that will presumably make it slower than a
natively programmed machine-code/C system like LegOS.

I've never used LejOS - but I can certainly confirm that
LegOS is *HUGELY* faster than native RCX code.

Lejos is somewhere in the middle.

Whether that is fast enough depends on your project,
if it needs reaction times in the 100ms range no problem,
at 10-20ms it gets really tough (sensors are read every 3ms).
It also has has a clock with 1ms precision if you're after that.

Over NQC (or other LEGO firmware based) it also has
the advantage of Java being a full programming language.
Over LegOS the advantage is that it is easier to debug IMHO.

Jürgen

--
Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/



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(...) That's what I'd expect. (...) Yes - I doubt that you really *need* all that performance on something like a Lego robot - particularly given the relatively limited amount of memory in the beast. (...) Just to clarify: NQC isn't "firmware" - it (...) (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) Well, LejOS is Java-based and Java is an interpreted language - so that will presumably make it slower than a natively programmed machine-code/C system like LegOS. I've never used LejOS - but I can certainly confirm that LegOS is *HUGELY* (...) (23 years ago, 20-Oct-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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