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> 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.