OK, let's forget this ! Seb
2009/7/10 Rob Hamerling <[email protected]> > > > Hi Seb, > > Sebastien Lelong wrote: > > > > Reading jallist topic about writing the program EEPROM, do you think it > > could be possible to include this lib to jallib ? OK, I may ask in a > > different way: is there anyone who would like to include this lib ? :) > > I started to make a library to use program-memory shortly after I > finished the library for data-memory. But soon I discovered that there > are many differences between PICS in the methods of writing and reading > program memory. So there had to be a good reason to continue and at that > time there were a couple of other higher priority tasks for Jallib. > > I see several reasons *not* to build such a library, for example: > - the use of program memory as substitute for RAM is discouraged by > Microchip datasheets (limited number of write cycles) > - not many applications need that much RAM > - there are good alternatives, such as using a bigger PIC > (e.g. an 18F type) or external RAM > For these (and maybe other) reasons such a library would not become very > popular, for the Jallib developers a reason to spend their precious time > to more urgent subjects. > > Regards, Rob. > > -- > Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL (http://www.robh.nl/) > > > > -- Sébastien Lelong http://www.sirloon.net http://sirbot.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
