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 as the Python runtime? AFAIK the > > PyPy team already uses a restricted subset of Python ( called RPython ) > > to translate type annotated RPython flowgraphs to several backends > > including Java. Therefore it seems not necessary to write a new Jython > > compiler or CPython runtime. JVMs are all around also for ARM > > processors. > > With footprints in the 100K range?
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. JVMs are also a common technology on SmartCards but those are not open source. Kay > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! I decided to be JOHN > at TRAVOLTA instead!! > visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list