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The ULP coprocessor still uses a small amount of power, as does its few KB of NVRAM. The idea of the intermittently powered FRAM thing is that it can be powered down completely, then start up again and continue from a checkpoint. I haven't read the paywalled article, but it looks to me like the main contribution in the project was hacking circuit python to transparently checkpoint itself every so often, so that it ca…
Yep. I think for limited resources, micro-py is the wrong approach. That it is interpreted aside; I had a lua-based interpreter crash because the stack/heap in a nested routine (ie lots of nested fn calls) managed to fill up available memory.
Sounds almost like an ideal use case for Oberon to me - perhaps with remoting the UI or something like that. Chances are that a full environment would still be smaller than this micro-py thingy, whatever that is.