[M3devel] How small can Modula-3 runtime be?

[Dragiša Durić]

Bare hardware would be too much a task for me now, but those numbers are great. I can spare few tens of KILObytes anytime :).

Right now I am looking around for cross-compiling setup. Anyone did it in work environment? (not only for bootstrap)

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Dragiša Durić
dragisha at m3w.org




On Sep 3, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Mika Nystrom wrote:

> =?utf-8?Q?Dragi=C5=A1a_Duri=C4=87?= writes:
> ...
>> 
>> Question is - if we go embedded, how small can we go?
>> 
>> Obviously, we need full Linux kernel, pthreads and all. But what about =
>> total RAM? Flash (persistent storage)?=20
>> 
>> dd
> 
> Modula-3 has been run without a kernel.
> 
> http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechCSTR:1993.cs-tr-93-15
> 
> Table 3.0, page 49, for byte counts of the runtime.
> 
> I have the source code somewhere.  It's a modified version of the old SRC M3
> compiler, which compiles M3 to C.
> 
>    Mika
> 
> 

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