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Due to their tight memory constraints, small microcontroller based embedded systems have traditionally been implemented using low-level languages. This paper shows that the Scheme programming language can also be used for such applications, with less than 7 kB of total memory. We present PICOBIT, a very compact implementation of Scheme suitable for memory constrained embedded systems. To achieve a compact system we have tackled the space issue in three ways: the design of a Scheme compiler generating compact bytecode, a small virtual machine, and an optimizing C compiler suited to the compilation of the virtual machine.
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St-Amour, V., Feeley, M. (2010). PICOBIT: A Compact Scheme System for Microcontrollers. In: Morazán, M.T., Scholz, SB. (eds) Implementation and Application of Functional Languages. IFL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6041. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16478-1_1
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