From: "Daniel M. Albro" <albro@humnet.ucla.edu>
To: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Native compiler support for m68k?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:32:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F451E59.3070304@humnet.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030821165614.C14140@pauillac.inria.fr>
It is doable, though. Look at LispMe (http://www.lispme.de), a
Scheme interpreter for PalmOS. The author got around the memory
problems by finding a way to use databases as the memory space of the
interpreter. Also, the newer ARM-based Palm devices should have fewer
limitations. Moreover, since the LispMe source is available, most
likely any GUI code you wanted could be lifted from that. I'm not
volunteering, of course, but I think it would be doable (I've looked at
the problem in connection with thinking about writing a Prolog
interpreter for PalmOS).
- Dan Albro
Xavier Leroy wrote:
>>In such case what about ocaml port for palm pilot?
>
>
> François Rouaix did a Palm port of Caml Light (the "lean and mean"
> ancestor of OCaml) a long time ago.
>
> The main problem was that the data segment of a Palm OS program had to
> fit in 64K, which is quite tight for Caml Light and definitely not
> enough for OCaml. (The remainder of the RAM was either read-only code
> blocks, or PalmOS "databases" that must be accessed through system calls.)
> I don't know if this limitation was lifted in later versions of PalmOS.
>
> Problem number 2 is that text-only apps aren't very usable on a
> handheld, so you'd need to interface a large chunk of the GUI toolkit.
>
> - Xavier Leroy
>
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20030820104917.GB6782@linux-m68k.org>
2003-08-20 12:32 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-08-20 17:46 ` Gleb N. Semenov
2003-08-21 14:56 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-08-21 19:32 ` Daniel M. Albro [this message]
2003-08-24 20:05 ` Richard Zidlicky
2003-08-26 13:43 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-08-30 9:59 ` Richard Zidlicky
2003-09-05 21:58 ` Richard Zidlicky
2003-09-06 0:53 ` Byron Hale
2003-09-06 10:01 ` Benjamin Geer
2003-09-07 13:37 ` David MENTRE
2003-09-08 9:52 ` Damien Doligez
2003-09-08 20:36 ` [Caml-list] GC Question Christophe Raffalli
2003-09-09 9:32 ` Pierre Weis
2003-09-09 10:40 ` Christophe Raffalli
2003-09-11 15:04 ` Xavier Leroy
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