Hi Tom,
Thanks alot for the information. Those are great places to start. As far as
loading the bytecode goes, for now I am still looking into that, but will
have to load directly from memory, as you mentioned.
Cheers,
</Alexis>
On 7/24/07, Tom Shackell
Hi Alexis,
Alexis Morris wrote:
Hi all, So far this all compiles fine, and will fit into ROM but I have yet to test it...I would like to figure out what else I can skim...I really want to be able to run it from RAM (64KB) eventually.
My question at the moment is whether I can remove stuff like pretty.c, and sanity.c (and possibly jonkers) without having a major breakdown of the system.
$(VM_DIR)/profile.c \ $(VM_DIR)/stable.c \ $(VM_DIR)/pretty.c \ $(VM_DIR)/sanity.c \ $(VM_DIR)/stopcopy.c \
These should be safe to remove, indeed stopcopy isn't used at all.
$(VM_DIR)/Concurrent.c \ $(VM_DIR)/IORef.c \ $(VM_DIR)/PackedString.c \ $(VM_DIR)/RuntimeAPI.c \
These should be possible to remove, Concurrent may be a bit more tricky (but I think it's all optional).
$(VM_DIR)/Array.c \
It is used in Numeric but you'll probably never used the function that uses it (hence you should be able to remove it).
$(VM_DIR)/WrapPrimitive.c \
You can remove any definitions made redundant by removing other things.
$(VM_DIR)/System.c \
Might be able to trim it down, primExitWith is essential but everything else is not.
You might try removing jonkers (and mark) but of course you'll lose garbage collection. Since you've only got a small amount of memory and Haskell programs allocate memory like crazy I suspect the garbage collector is going to be essential.
The other question is how are you loading the bytecode program? In standard Yhi it's loaded from the filesystem but I'm guessing the embedded processor doesn't have a file system? In which case I guess you must load it directly from memory some how. If that's true then you might be able to remove some of the loading code (but maybe not, depends on how you do it).
After that it starts getting hard to remove much more. Make sure debug information is not added and change gcc from "optimise for speed" to "optimize for size".
Hope that helps :-)
Tom
-- </Alexis>