On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 06:45:44 -0700 (PDT), dbohdan <[email protected]> wrote:
>Has anyone tried making a small embedded implementation of Racket? I mean >"embedded" not in the sense of 8-bit microcontrollers but more powerful yet >still constrained devices, like routers with 64 MB RAM running Linux or the >PlayStation 2. I think you don't have to work from scratch to make one. >You can implement Racket on top of an embedded Scheme like Chibi-Scheme ><https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme>. It doesn't need to be a full, >maximally compatible port of Racket like Racket CS, just a large subset. >For example, you can skip futures and places. > >What features do you need to implement natively in the interpreter rather >than in Scheme? You can implement delimited continuations in terms of >call/cc. The concurrency primitives (threads, boxes, etc.) and the FFI? >You may be able to, but don't have to, optimize the interpreter for >immutable conses. > >This is just something I have been musing about. If no project like this >exists, I am not starting one soon. Racket can run in less than 64MB, but severely limited memory typically results in a lot of GC churn. George -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/3pbnbgtsk18g1dpg8951h9nvjuu448gmja%404ax.com.
