[Mike Betts]

Originally Posted by galewind

Am I correct in saying that the drastic increase of MIPS (from 0.01 to 10.0) will mean that the length of your code should no longer impact the execution time -- so that you will always be able to execute a loop once every 17 (or ~26) ms?

In general, the code (and code requirements such as I/O) will grow to fill all available space/time. There have already been posts in these fori where users have run out of space (one gentleman could not load his program into ROM and asked what could be deleted) and time (another was using interrupts at a very high repetition rate to decode shaft position).

The task of the design engineer is to choose and implement a design that is within the capabilities of system constraints. The PIC 18C considerably increases (loosens) the system constraints we must stay within but not infinitely.

Now I will borrow Car Knack's Cloak of Prediction from Mr. Beatty:

"Before 3/1/2004, more than one engineer or EIT will complain that the new controller is not powerful enough."