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

Python on an embedded platform

2006-01-19 Thread Derek
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 looking for any tricks,