Re: Python on an embedded platform

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Rubin
"Kay Schluehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, definitely. The smallest JVM I've seen was dedicated for an 8-Bit > AVR with 8 KByte EEPROM ( or was it Flash? ) and a 768 byte sized heap. That sounds like Javacard, which is a subset of a JVM (e.g. a minimal Javacard implementation doesn't need g

Re: Python on an embedded platform

2006-01-19 Thread Kay Schluehr
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-01-19, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Does anybody have advice? I am looking for any tricks, features I can > >> disable, etc so I can get the python core to be a small as possible (<100k > >> would be good). > > > > Have you thought about using a JVM

Re: Python on an embedded platform

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Rubin
Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JVMs are all around also for ARM processors. > With footprints in the 100K range? For the JVM itself, that's no big deal (look at J2ME). JVM plus Python runtime might be harder. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python on an embedded platform

2006-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-01-19, Kay Schluehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anybody have advice? I am looking for any tricks, features I can >> disable, etc so I can get the python core to be a small as possible (<100k >> would be good). > > Have you thought about using a JVM as the Python runtime? AFAIK the >

Re: Python on an embedded platform

2006-01-19 Thread Kay Schluehr
Derek wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to port Python to an embedded platform (an ARM7 device with > fairly limited memory, capable of running an RTOS, but not an OS, such as > Linux). I came across DePython from a few years ago, but it seems to have > died a death. > > Does anybody have advice? I am

Re: Python on an embedded platform

2006-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-01-19, Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking to port Python to an embedded platform (an ARM7 > device with fairly limited memory, capable of running an RTOS, > but not an OS, such as Linux). I came across DePython from a > few years ago, but it seems to have died a death. The ot

Re: Python on an embedded platform

2006-01-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Derek wrote: > Does anybody have advice? I am looking for any tricks, features I can > disable, etc so I can get the python core to be a small as possible (<100k > would be good). Please start with describing how far you got. What did you already do, and how far did it get you? My first recomme