[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: [SML] Hardware resources. ( Whether to support Attribute or not?)
> >On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote: > >> S-XSLT should be written anyway. XT will hardly fit into > >> cell phone ;-) > > It would be interesting to know how much code can be fitted into a > cell-phone. Does anyone actually know? It depends. I suggest not to get concentrated on the particular "cell-phone", but to think about 'some device with low memory'. Before we got PC - many things ( like compilers, OS e t.c) were already in place on big computers. Then PC appears - and we need to calculate memory and use assembly again. OK, we have PC. Everything is fine, memory is cheap after a years of progress we have UNIX running on PC. Then we got, for example, VeriPhone POS ( to process credit cards ) - and we are again in the world of low-level programming with limited resources e t.c. I think this is endless process, because it was endless before. Maybe something very important happened and now there is some way to be more happy about the future? I don't think so. > It seems that a cell phone can fit at least a WAP system including a > little ECMAScript interpreter and networking. There are WAPphones > on sale in HongKong, so they can fit the glyphs for > 3,000-7000 characters too, though perhaps some smarts are used > to squeeze them in by components. But there will always be some device with limited resources. I don't know why it always happens that programms need more resources than hardware could give and I don't understand why it should change. I don't know why Java VM is not already embedded into every device. Maybe hardware vendors have some reason for it ? Not talking about the history of Next computer ... wasn't it perfect? ... but too expensive .... I think the same is with any hardware, including cell-phone. So there will be for sure some cell-phones not running ECMAScript interpreter. The question is what framework would fit better into 'cell-phone' - XML-based or SML-based. I think that because people from that hardware world are already implementing the subsets of XML - it should be taken into account. Actualy, getting SML in place may help *XML* to get better market share. SML could be kind of XML for very-very-very thin clients ;-) Alfred parser showed that XML parser could be small. Unfortunately, *only* the parser may be not enough. I want XT to run everywhere ;-) Rgds.Paul. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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