Re: TI-H: Ph34r my 3r337 nu hax0red t0y
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Re: TI-H: Ph34r my 3r337 nu hax0red t0y
>> Bryan, don't make me smack you :P
>
>Its not your fault national semi chose fairly big EEPROM pages. I'm
>sure they had their reasons. The 45D041 is simply more efficient
>for smaller programs. That was my point, not that it is in any
>way your fault that the ESF had bigger pages. Talk about being
>overly protective :)
PoTAEto, poTAHto :)
>> First of all, the ESF was 1 meg, not 512k... There are NOT that many
>> programs COMBINED (that are worth storing) across all the calcs to
>> warrant worrying about efficiency. Storage efficiency, on average, is
>> about 70 to 80% with the ESF... Fine and dandy... And not one person
>> I know has ever used all 1 meg, so :PPP... Worst case you store only
>> 256 1-byte files which is a 0% efficiency... As soon as all your
>> games hit 4k or larger (I imagine most 85 games were in the 3k to 7k
>> range), the absolute worst case efficiency is 50%, and it can only go
>> up from there.
>
>But the E2 looks better if I bend the numbers. You remember that ad
>Microchip posted on its web site when the AVRs first came out?
>"WHY PICS ARE BETTER THAN AVRS... Cuz, uhh, if you don't think so,
>we're out of business."
Heh... So the truth comes out :)
-Mel
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