The compilation was… musical. Not literally, but the rhythm of the compiler output—the whir of the hard drive, the flicker of the LEDs on his debug probe—felt coordinated. The build finished in 0.4 seconds. The resulting .hex file was exactly 47,402 bytes. He noted the number with a shiver.
: A free evaluation (Lite) version is sometimes hosted on university-specific pages for course participants. For example, the UT Austin ECE department provides links to mdk474.exe (approx. 590MB) for their ARM courses. Installation Step : Run mdk474.exe . mdk-arm version 4.74
There was a distinct satisfaction to the "Start/Stop Debug Session" button. It was instantaneous. There were no background indexers hogging CPU, no "building workspace" progress bars hanging the interface. It was a lighter time for software, and the responsiveness of 4.74 reflects that. The compilation was… musical