Low level python

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"Christian Tismer" <tismer at tismer.com> wrote in message
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> Ken Seehof wrote:
> >>You guys are scaring me. I don't feel safe on the cutting edge!
> >>
> >>It actually doesn't look that hard using WinDriver (they even have
device
> >>drivers written in VB!)
> >>
> >>One prob I have to convince the rent payers: It uses 2-3Mb of RAM when
> >>running! Who wants a 3Mb device driver?
> >>
> >>I remember that deeply embedded python recompile python dropping
langauge
> >>features out. Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Yes but why.
>
> >>Anyone know how I can reduce the memory footprint of Python?
>
> Write all your device drivers and finally your system
> with this one Python kernel. Then you are small,
> compared to what we have nowadays.
>
> >>Matthew Sherborne
> >
> >
> > Yeah.  You could write the operating system in python!  That way all
the
> > python device drivers won't cost extra :-)
> >
> > But seriously, you should check out Gordon McMillan's work:
> > http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/distribute.html
>
> I think this is serious. Who really needs an operating
> system, a file system and all of that?
> Forgetting about other applications, I really believe
> that one could write a pretty nice OS with Python,
> object oriented from the ground.
>
> This would be a real fun project,
> provided there were fun-ding. :-)
>

A big project, obviously, but I agree that it would be immensely fun to
have available. And then the custom chip to put Python into the hardware
(yeah, yeah, but I mean, whatever *could* be put there) ...