On 2/5/2010 5:22 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Les Mikesell<lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: >> Can you put a realistic price on what the extra resources would cost >> these days? > > Clearly you've never worked for a large company if you even ask that question. > > A $1 difference in cost over 100,000 units sold is $100,000 in your pocket. > > I recall the first model of BCM we decided not to put a power switch > on it for just this reason. What I meant by the price is how much the price was reduced for the consumer. Manufacturers taking away functionality and not passing on the savings isn't very interesting, but I suppose there's a point in volume where you could pay someone to re-write perl or java code in C or some close-to-the-metal language to save a few bytes of flash and RAM. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com