go on a tiny harvard-architecture system (arduino)

[ronpf...@gmail.com]

Hi there. The arduino is a series of tiny hobby boards that use atmel
avr-based cpus for pretty much everything. They have very little ram
(mine has 4k), but relatively large amounts of EEPROM-based program
memory (mine has 32k).

Is there any hope of running GO code in this kind of environment?

Thanks
Ron

[Ed Marshall]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:31 PM, ronpf...@gmail.com <ronpf...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there.  The arduino is a series of tiny hobby boards that use atmel
avr-based cpus for pretty much everything.  They have very little ram
(mine has 4k), but relatively large amounts of EEPROM-based program
memory (mine has 32k).

Perhaps gccgo would be a good place to start?

I have to admit, programming Arduinos in Go would be a pleasure.

--
Ed Marshall <e...@logic.net>
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
http://esm.logic.net/

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"ronpf...@gmail.com" <ronpf...@gmail.com> writes:

Quite apart from porting to AVR, I think 4K RAM would be very tight in
a garbage collected language like Go. Go also requires type
reflection structures, which include strings naming types, and that
would burn a lot of your 32K. In short, I think it would be quite
hard.

Ian

[infoneer]

Perhaps not the answer you're looking for, but there's a CSP-style
language with some of the benefits of Go that works on the Arduino at:

http://concurrency.cc/

-joe

> Ian

[Johann Höchtl]

On Mar 24, 9:51 pm, infoneer <joseph.stew...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > "ronpfei...@gmail.com" <ronpfei...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Perhaps not the answer you're looking for, but there's a CSP-style
> language with some of the benefits of Go that works on the Arduino at:
>
> http://concurrency.cc/
>

Intersting link, I was not aware of that site / language.

BTW just for fun: Directly on the start site I read:

" Mac Version is Go! "

Haha

> -joe
>
> > Ian

Johann