m.roth at 5-cent.us 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? > I mean if you go from supplying perl and some perl-scripted functionality, you either have to drop the functionality or some engineer has to rewrite the code in a different language - something that usually isn't cheap. I've never tried perl2c - if such a thing exists it probably embeds most of perl as a library. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com