* Klaus Seegebarth kseege@t-online.de [020624 10:06]:
As all my computers live inside a machine in a production environment, the 3 most important items for me are reliability, reliability and reliability. A major influence on reliability is the amount of energy consumed, so what i am really interested in is a gcc-switch, which optimizes to minimum energy per task. A faster completion of a task only leads to longer idle periods :-)
this is true in embedded systems for all tasks except booting. There it means in case of a failure you can reduce the time until the machine is able to fulfill it's tasks in 22% less time. Still it's easy to outperform most of the commercial firmware stuff without problems.
Stefan