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Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 8 Mar 2005 00:04:21 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net> wrote:
> Mark Bellis wrote:
> > Since I soon learned that the way to squeeze more out of a BBC micro was to use
> > machine code, I think the same is probably true for the RCX.
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> Dumping the standard firmware allows you to do much more sophisticated stuff.
> If you use brickOS, you can use 'real' C instead of Not-Quite-C - and since it'll
> be fully compiled, it'll run about as fast as unoptimised hand-written assembler.
Or if you really wanna reduce the memory use, compile your program as firmware
that you can send using firmdl3 (like the BrickOS kernel itself, or LDCC).
Although I must admit that BrickOS, if you use the kernel compile defines, can
be made into a pretty lean mean beast.
ROSCO
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 | | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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| (...) You could certainly use assembler (and presumably hex) using brickOS but I don't think it's possible with the standard firmware. Of course a true 'Real Programmer' would just dump the firmware altogether and write to the bare metal. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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