On Saturday, 11 February 2012 at 01:46:26 UTC, Era Scarecrow
wrote:
What are your thoughts?
There is no way you get a D application into 64K. The language
is not powerful enough. Only C can achieve that.
I'll need to agree. Porting D to a smaller memory space and
with cramped features in all of this is not going to be good no
matter how you look at it. I'm sure it's similar to comparing
using perl in something with only 64k of memory, one must ask
where you can put the interpreter, decoding and working with
the source text, and many other things, not to mention even if
you pulled it off, the speed penalty.
With only 64k, you aren't going to need anything extremely
complex or elaborate.
You MIGHT get away with exporting D code to using C symbols,
but you'll likely be stuck working with structs, no library
support, no heap, no memory management, and fixed-sized arrays.
I doubt you'd need templates, or any of the higher functions.
All structures and types must be basic or known statically at
compile time. Unlikely for lambdas to be used, and a score of
other features.
This is all just speculation, but I think you get the picture.
If you make a subset of D, it would most likely be named
Mini-D. But at that point you've got an enhanced C without
going C++.
Also computer chips are becoming more powerful every day.
I think we will soon be needing better tools.
example: Microchip PIC32MX795F512L
32 bit MIPS architecture
512K flash, 128K RAM
priced less than $10
http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en545660#2
