[gambit-list] Porting to "small" machines -- target requirements?

Michael Wirth mwirth at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 22:07:17 EDT 2010


Folks,

Has anyone done an estimate (or measurement!) of the resources
required on the target platform to do a port of Gambit?  For example,
for a given processor architecture, what are the memory requirements
to support a port of the interpreter for code, stack space, data RAM,
etc. Other HW resources and functional support?

I have in mind the types of processors currently used by "embedded
systems", which tend to have lots of processor power, but either
simple and small memories or rather baroque memory architectures
(e.g., a mixture of ROM, fast and slow RAM, writeable FLASH, etc.) and
no VM support or rotating storage.

It would be nice to get some "lessons learned" feedback from Gambit
porters before charging down a blind alley myself :-)

Mike Wirth
Palo Alto, CA



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