A Tcl article and an Erlang article - good morning!
I miss working with Erlang especially, but it's also certainly kind of a niche thing. Other languages are faster and have more effort being put into them.
Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
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Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#12I don't have any experience with ARM, but from what I've seen people write, isn't 32-bit ARM discontinued after v7?
There's still a huge embedded market! Plenty of microcontrollers have a single-digit number of Cortex-M cores and memory/flash counted in the megabytes. It'll be decades until that market reaches the multi-gigabyte point, so why bother wasting a whole bunch of memory on 64-bit pointers? I'm not quite sure why you'd want to run Erlang on it, but the hardware exists.
> I'm not quite sure why you'd want to run Erlang on it, but the hardware exists.
Erlang is invented before IoT was a thing to facilitate distributed computing for telecommunication in a highly reliable manner. It makes perfect sense to adapt it for driving fleets of cheap IoT devices.
Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#13A Tcl article and an Erlang article - good morning! I miss working with Erlang especially, but it's also certainly kind of a niche thing. Other languages are faster and have more effort being put into them.
For a certain definitions of faster
Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#14Gah, misread that as esp32 JIT, which would be eye opening!
esp32 is now also RISC-V so I guess it wouldn't be completely out of the question. But I guess you meant this flavor https://www.cadence.com/content/dam/cadence-www/global/en_US...
Either TBH, I imagined the main issue would be ram, even with psram. EQMX is used a lot for IOT and it'd be interesting seeing more heavy loads on the edge.
Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#15A Tcl article and an Erlang article - good morning! I miss working with Erlang especially, but it's also certainly kind of a niche thing. Other languages are faster and have more effort being put into them.
and 32-bit arm (nothing wrong with it; just like tcl and erlang, it's alive and well)
Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#16I don't have any experience with ARM, but from what I've seen people write, isn't 32-bit ARM discontinued after v7?
There's still a huge embedded market! Plenty of microcontrollers have a single-digit number of Cortex-M cores and memory/flash counted in the megabytes. It'll be decades until that market reaches the multi-gigabyte point, so why bother wasting a whole bunch of memory on 64-bit pointers? I'm not quite sure why you'd want to run Erlang on it, but the hardware exists.
> I'm not quite sure why you'd want to run Erlang on it, but the hardware exists.
https://nerves-project.org/#features has a decent pitch for why. (Most of the features listed here aren't features of Nerves-the-Elixir-IoT-runtime-codebase per se, but rather benefits of Nerves-the-toolchain enabling you to easily build lean, embedded Erlang [on Linux] firmware images.)
Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#17I don't have any experience with ARM, but from what I've seen people write, isn't 32-bit ARM discontinued after v7?
Cortex-M chips will still be made for decades.
Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#18A Tcl article and an Erlang article - good morning! I miss working with Erlang especially, but it's also certainly kind of a niche thing. Other languages are faster and have more effort being put into them.
Don't Erlang and Elixir have a lot of effort being put into them?
Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#19I don't have any experience with ARM, but from what I've seen people write, isn't 32-bit ARM discontinued after v7?
Their motivation is explained in the first post of the series[1] [1] https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-23-jit-arm32.1#why-...
For their real motivation[0], click on hardware at the top of the page.
Their existing hardware is aarch32. It really is that simple.
Re: Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
#20I don't have any experience with ARM, but from what I've seen people write, isn't 32-bit ARM discontinued after v7?
Their motivation is explained in the first post of the series[1] [1] https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-23-jit-arm32.1#why-...
loved them complaining about having "only" 16 registers