Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!dgbt!don
From: don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Subject: C cross compiler's for TMS320XX chips
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.155138.5030@dgbt.doc.ca>
Sender: don@dgbt.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Organization: The Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 91 15:51:38 GMT


We have used TI's TMS320C25 C compiler, and are not impressed with the
code it produces. Often hand assembled code is 8 time better, on average
3. In CISC environments I always heard a good C compiler would give
at most 50% overhead. What are reasonable numbers for RISC or DSP chips.

If anyone can suggest a better C cross compiler for the TMS320XX family
we would certainly like to hear about it.

Thanks, Don.

P.S.
	Developement host would be a PC or better yet a Sun.