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Implementation and Evaluation of an Interpreter for Functional Reactive Programming on Small Embedded Devices

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Programming '23: Companion Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming

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This paper reports the implementation of Emfrp-REPL, an interactive interpreter (REPL) of a functional reactive programming language for resource-constrained embedded systems. Its goal is to accelerate the prototyping and development of microcontroller-based embedded systems. The interpreter runs on small-scale embedded devices based on 32-bit microcontrollers, such as ESP32 with 520KiB size data RAM. The evaluation shows that the memory usage of Emfrp-REPL is comparable to MicroPython, and the range of its latency is narrower than MicroPython, according to microbenchmarks.

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Implementation and Evaluation of an Interpreter for Functional Reactive Programming on Small Embedded Devices
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
      1. Embedded software
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Functional languages

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Programming '23: Companion Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming

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DOI:10.1145/3594671

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