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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
> Looking at the code produced by the Arduino Software/GCC it is
> horribly inefficient code, of course part of it could be if the CPU
> has a lousy instruction set won't know for a while.

The cpu instruction set looked ok in the quick look I gave it.  Maybe
the GCC port is not very good.

The follow-on ESP32 processor is a lot more powerful so maybe upgrading
to that is more interesting than tweaking the 8266 version.