Lisp on embedded platforms

embedded lisp real-time
absence picture absence · Mar 30, 2011 · Viewed 12.4k times · Source

Are there any open source Lisp compilers suitable for real-time embedded applications? I.e. with incremental garbage collection, customisable memory handling, small footprint, etc.

Edit:

To clarify, by "compiler" I meant native code, not bytecode interpreter (though the suggested interpreting implementations for microcontrollers are interesting for being a lot smaller than what I thought possible!).

Answer

user445161 picture user445161 · Mar 30, 2011

Take a look at Picobit and the code, which is a Scheme for microcontrollers. There is also tinyscheme, but I don't know how suitable it is for embedding into smaller processors.

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