On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Jakob Eriksson <ja...@aurorasystems.eu> wrote: > Still, PicoLisp source, I mean the program you write in PicoLisp, > (not the C code) can become quite large depending on your application. > > We mitigated this, not by storing the "compiled" structures of pointers > to pointers. (Although we could have - but that would have been > complicated to implemented I think, and I am not convinced it would have > been much smaller than the text source.) > Instead, we compressed the text files (picolisp source code) and > unpacked them upon on loading. Source code in general compresses very well. > In principle, I think you could create something like these Javascript > "minifiers" before putting it through compression. This hypothetical > PicoLisp minifier would for instance replace long variable names with > shorter ones.
This is another approach I that crossed my mind too, though I have only passing interaction with the JS world. I am assuming one could implement a load-like function that uses gzip and decompresses the stream in addition to reading. Matt > > > https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS > > > > > > > > On 2017-07-15 12:56, Alexander Burger wrote: >> Hi Matt, >> >>> In order to minimize flash footprint, I was wondering if it would be >>> possible to compile code down to byte code? The reason i wanted to do that >>> is then I could make of some library functions in reader macros off-target >>> and avoid installing libraries on the target. >> >> Can you explain what you mean? Compile *what* to byte code? Not the PicoLisp >> binary, right? >> >> Note that normal PicoLisp doesn't compile anything. It "compiles" to >> structures >> of pointers to pointers, where the compiler is called the "reader" in Lisp. >> >> As you talk of libraries, you should look at miniPicoLisp. It "compiles" Lisp >> source files to C structures, to be able to put them into ROM instead of >> precious RAM at runtime. However, these are still not byte codes, but the >> good >> old pointers to pointers :) >> >> ♪♫ Alex >> > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
