You'll get more sense in any replies if you tell us the target processor (and OS), the language(s) you wish to compile and the kind of drivers you are interested in.
I am most interested in not having to spend a lot of time not learning how to write display drivers, I would like a 16 or 32 bit processor that is less than $15 in single quantities. I would prefer C as the language. I am most interested in comparing compilers features for easy code generation than restricting processor. I looked at the TI examples a few years back and you had to cut and paste them from app notes as compared to being a built in feature to the compiler. Ti introduced a compiler for beginners or hobbyist a couple of years back but it had a very limited number of target processors and was new -- perhaps that has become more main stream. I don't want to buy a compiler. I would like to drive a graphics and or character types displays and display alpha numeric easily.
I am most interested in not having to spend a lot of time not learning how to write display drivers, I would like a 16 or 32 bit processor that is less than $15 in single quantities. I would prefer C as the language. I am most interested in comparing compilers features for easy code generation than restricting processor. I looked at the TI examples a few years back and you had to cut and paste them from app notes as compared to being a built in feature to the compiler. Ti introduced a compiler for beginners or hobbyist a couple of years back but it had a very limited number of target processors and was new -- perhaps that has become more main stream. I don't want to buy a compiler. I would like to drive a graphics and or character types displays and display alpha numeric easily.
I think your best bet would be to look at ST's ARM based processors.
The higher end ones have hardware display drivers and accelerators and they offer lots of examples, code building tools and full graphics libraries (free to use on their processors).
Whichever chip you use you will need to spend some time getting familiar with it and its tools.
