Re: life extension of old computers thanks to opensource Contiki

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Peter de Vroomen wrote:

> The ARM is a RISC processor, and RISC processors are not really suitable to
> hand-coding. Assembly code for a RISC processor needs to be optimized to
> have it make use of all the advanced features. Unoptimized code is often

Actually the ARM is the RISC micro you're most likely to need to
hand-optimize. Writing high-performance ARM code, especially when
interrupt latency is a problem, involves dancing between 32-bit and
Thumb modes, and _very_ careful juggling with register usage.