A cost model for Nim

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A cost model for Nim

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

— T. S. Eliot

This blog post is the beginning of a cost model for the implementation that is available via “Nim devel” aka Nim version 2.

This implementation was designed for embedded, hard real-time systems. Generally speaking, assuming you have enough RAM (which is about 64 kB) all of Nim’s language features are supported – including exception handling and heap-based storage. The implementation of these features also works on bare metal, without an operating system.

Heap-based storage

Why the focus on embedded, hard real-time systems? Because when you do these well you can also do everything else well! The algorithms used are oblivious to the heap size: Nim’s memory management works well with a 64 kB sized heap but al...

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