On Jun 25 2013 7:45 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:46 AM, EBo <e...@sandien.com> wrote: > >> fair enough. That would be extreme (the bit equivalent of the limbo >> -- >> how small can you go). As such I had not seriously thought that it >> would be designed to work with the Arduino, but it was an amusing >> image. >> BTW, I think the mega gives you something like 256MB, so 0.3% >> overhead >> for a database is not bad at all. > > I don't know how much longer people are going to be tempted to > squeeze > inappropriate apps onto an Arduino. Probably for a while, but I > think > the RPi changed that a lot. A Beaglebone or a RPi is not much more > than twice the size of an Arduino and infinitely more capable.
inappropriate? Who's to judge appropriateness? If it works as intended then it works on that platform. I might consider it inappropriate if I replaced all the chips on the board to eek out the extra nano seconds needed to accomplish something. On second thought I do not think I would consider it inappropriate even then, but mere overkill... Speaking of out there apps... I recently took a Advanced Scientific Programming in Fortran short course at NASA-GSFC, and the latest 2008 standards have all the great OOP/OOD functionality you have come to love (except programing by contract which is slated for review in 2015), with a few added wicked cool things added on (like co-arrays). The part of me with the wicked sense of humor has seriously thought of writing a bunch of functor based Fortran code using gfortran-4.8.1 (which is mostly ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010 compliant), and cross compile that down onto the Android ;-) So, what would be the most inappropriate Fortran code shoehorned into an Android? Maybe a telescope driver with an embedded start catalog, and planetary ephemeras... I'll have to think about this one carefully. It would be done for the shock value alone unless I can think of a real application like ooo... this just might work. publiclaboratory.org had designed some spectrometers that you can build at home. Now imagine if the spectrographic analysis could be done on a small embedded system in the original Fortran code... That would be so twisted... EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
