[racket] OPERATING SYSTEM ON A FPGA

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Patrick Li <patrickli.2001 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have only done system programming in assembly and C, and found that I
> frequently did a lot of manual placement and shuffling of data in memory,
> with the usual pointer tricks.
>
> Off the top of my head, I do not how those same tasks would be
> accomplished in a dynamically typed, and garbage-collected language like
> Scheme. Would anyone be able to explain the gist of it?
>

You use a subset of the language to avoid implicit memory allocation and
you use
special "subprimitive" operations that are the Scheme equivalent of "peek"
and "poke".

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~jrm
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