> I found I could get Python to run with pre-compiled modules 
> in 4M of RAM. 

That is really not bad.  Any recent hardware using current generation memory chips will likely have 32M-bytes or 64M-bytes of RAM, so 4M for the parsing, protection, garbage collection, etc. you get with Python is not unreasonable.

> I do not expect to write the realtime parts of any application in Python.

That makes sense, write directly to the RTEMS executive for real time, and use Python for  management, or data formatting, or whatever can be less deterministic.
I'll have to think of something to do with this now.

-- Chris Caudle



