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From: DrPi <314@drpi.fr>
Subject: Re: Should light runtimes get more consideration?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:42:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uf6k7r$4vc$1@rasp.pasdenom.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uf6768$7dtq$1@dont-email.me>


> WRT energy use. I use a low power run feature on the STM32L4 which means 
> the
> system clock speed can change at any time. That seems to be incompatible
> with any runtime that I have seen except the minimal light-cortex-m4 one. I
> assume working with clocks is more scalable than working with runtimes but
> I do not know for sure.
> 
The fact that the clock speed is hard coded is a design choice.
It simplifies the time management.
It makes the runtime more "hard real time" compliant since there are 
less computations to be done at execution.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-29 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-26 11:44 Should light runtimes get more consideration? Kevin Chadwick
2023-09-28  3:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2023-09-28  9:46   ` Kevin Chadwick
2023-09-28 13:25     ` Simon Wright
2023-09-28 17:51       ` DrPi
2023-09-28 20:53         ` Simon Wright
2023-09-28 21:18           ` DrPi
2023-09-28 23:51             ` Chris Townley
2023-09-29  9:59               ` Kevin Chadwick
2023-09-29 10:42                 ` Chris Townley
2023-09-29 13:44                   ` DrPi
2023-09-29 13:42                 ` DrPi [this message]
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