Raghu,

I didn't meant to offend you in any way; I am sorry for it.

I usually try to resist the temptation to optimize a working code, but here, this was just an illustration of how the result depends on a programming style, which I think has its roots in lot of experience on other, more "conventional" processors/microcontrollers. Another example of this way of thinking is the following construction I saw quite often in various '51 programs:

   mov  a,Data
   anl  a,#Mask
   mov  Data,a

And I find similar "inefficiencies" in my older "pieces" too often to stop thinking I am any closer to perfection :-)


Jan Waclawek