From: Dennis Newbold <dennisn@...>
Date: 2002-05-22T16:20:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Memory consumption.

Hi Dossy,

     I've done quite a bit of work on embedded systems,  I think that
it would be a really cool thing to have a Ruby Lite which would run
on systems with limited resources.  Both in terms of speed and memory
comsumption, it would be advantageous to have a byte-code interpreter
for Ruby, which I think is one of Matz' goals also.  With that kind of
Ruby, and that kind of platform, it would obviously be very necessary
to keep a very close eye on memory consumption.  Here's hoping that
someday we'll hve a palmtop Ruby, and have all kinds of new problmes to
solve using it!!
-dln-

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dossy wrote:

> On 2002.05.22, Dennis Newbold <dennisn@pe.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Basically, if you are that concerned about memory efficiency, a few
> > comments would be:
> [...]
> 
> I think Ruby would make an excellent language for building applications
> for a palm computer.  When you're limited to 16 MB or less, memory
> becomes a very serious concern.
> 
> Perhaps even a Ruby Lite with an especially small footprint would
> be cool for just this kind of purpose.
> 
> -- Dossy
> 
> -- 
> Dossy Shiobara                       mail: dossy@panoptic.com 
> Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/ 
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>     folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>