Re: LuaChip - The Project So Far

[David Given <dg@...>]

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 19:46, Erik Hougaard wrote:
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> The software configuration will be as this:

Ack! You've just pushed the complexity up by another order of magnitude! What 
you have now is nothing *like* a embedded Lua system. What you have is a 
single-chip computer running an OS like ucLinux or ECOS that just happens to 
run a Lua interpreter as one of many user processes. It's going to be big and 
expensive and have lots of RAM and ROM.

You could well be better off trying to strip it down as much as possible. Do 
you really *need* a threading kernel, for example? Or a TCP/IP stack? Try 
studying PICs and embedded Z80s. You couldn't run Lua on one, but that's the 
level of complexity that would be good to aim for...

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