> 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. Rewrite perl? You mean, like using perl2c? mark