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15 years ago

Code in tightly coupled memory

Hi all, I placed a function in a section different from the main code. More exactly, my code is mapped to sdram and I linked a function testcall() into a tightly coupled memory section which I pr...
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15 years ago

If you want a function to execute as fast as possible you probably need to inspect the generated code and examine the control flow and memory accesses to avoid execution stalls and unwanted memory accesses.

Depending on the code I'd guess you can gain 20-30% by optimising the C so that gcc generates better code.