Thread: Do you write functions for your code?
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Re: Do you write functions for your code?
actaully, the SW we are creating for these machines is realtime embedded code

remember that the C compiler will convert your code into assembly code, and from that into machine code

breaking your code up into many little functions makes it look nice, but it actually takes longer for it to run, and takes up more code space, because the function calls are actully jumps in assembly code

its shorter and faster to have sequential code all in one routine that simply falls through to the next statement.

not that we really have to be concerned with optimizing our code for size or speed.

well wait, I have seen some people posting that they have used up all the available code space this year - so maybe some of us got a little carried away with the functions :^)