Code Composer v5

Todd,

Todd Anderson78572 said:

1. On CCS3.3, there was a section of previous projects; I do not see this on CCS5 - will this be added at some time?

In 3.3 there was a recent projects list.  The concept concept doesn't apply in new versions of CCS as your project is either in the workspace or not.  In 3.3 you could open and close projects in the workspace, when closing they were gone.  In newer CCS versions a projects is in the workspace or not, if you close it the project is still there just it will be collapsed and not indexed or searched.

Todd Anderson78572 said:

2. Even on a new laptop, the speed of CCS in doing compiles and loads onto RAM of a DSP appear to be slower than they were on CCS3.3 - has there been testing to confirm this, and if so, are there plans to increase the speed of compiles and loads?

Compiler speed is mostly dependent on the version of the compiler being used.  If you use the same version of the compiler as in 3.3 then the compile time would be close.  However newer versions of the compiler are typically slower, much of this has to do with additional optimizations that are performed.  Another thing that contributes to the link time and also the symbol loading time (which will impact debug launch) is that the debug information format has changed in newer version.  There is a lot more info but this has an impact on link time and symbol load time.  If you have a large project with a lot of files one thing you can do is enable parallel builds so that files will be built in parallel (assuming you have a multi-core PC).  You can add a -j2 parameter to the command that is passed to gmake and this will execute compiles of source files in parallel.  To do this is a bit buried.  Right click on your project and select Properties.  Down at the bottom click to show Advanced Setttings.  Select C/C++ Build in the tree on the left.  You can now see the build command used on the right.  Uncheck the box to use the default command and add a -j2 to the end.

Todd Anderson78572 said:

3. Is there a way to do a "block comment" or "stream comment" of highlighted lines of code?

Sure.  Select the text you want to comment.  Right click and select Source -> Add Block Comment  you can also do Source -> Add comment to insert // in front of each line

Regards,

John