Re: RAM usage of applications?

[egarrulo]

Il 30/11/19 01:21, address@hidden ha scritto:
> egarrulo <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Can anybody give me a *rough* idea of how much RAM a basic program
> > written in Chicken and transpiled to C could require at run-time? Some
> > megabytes, dozens of megabytes, etc.  With all features enabled, if
> > feasible.  Speed is not a concern.
> What exactly do you mean by “all features enabled”?

I mean full support for every language feature. I guess that some 
language features - like "eval" and macros - may impact memory 
requirements significantly. Please note that I am not a Scheme 
programmer (yet).

> The RAM usage is mostly determined by the program you need to write and
> how you write it.
Sure, but there should be a lower limit, due to the runtime. For 
instance, a "Hello World" program compiled with SBCL (Common Lisp) can 
require dozens of megabytes. Anything else that the application does, 
will add to that.
> I have many programs written in CHICKEN Scheme running on a 32bits ARM
> machine with only 512 MB of RAM, they all take between a few hundreds of
> KB and to a few tenths of MB.
That would fit my constraints.  Thank you.