Posts Tagged ‘binary’
Dart binaries in Python packages
TL;DR PyPI provides a neat way of distributing binaries from other languages, and Python venvs make it easy to run different versions side by side. This post takes a look at how to do that with Dart, and the next steps necessary to do a proper job of it. Background A few days ago I […]
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Tags: binary, Dart, musl, package, PyPI, python, wheel
One of my favourite features of Dart is its ability to create executables (aka ahead of time [AOT] binaries)[1]. Creating binaries for the platform you’re running on is very straightforward, just dart compile exe but Dart doesn’t presently support cross compilation for command line binaries, unlike Rust and Go, which have also surged in popularity. […]
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Tags: Actions, architecture, ARM, Arm64, Armv7, binary, Buildx, Dart, Docker, github, Linux, MacOS, matrix, multi, platform, RISC-V, riscv64, tar, tarball, x64
The compiler will not save you
…at least not in an embedded environment. There’s a commonly held myth in modern software development that compilers are smarter than people at optimising code for its eventual runtime environment. By extension there’s no point in writing efficient code, because your idea of efficient code might not actually be all that efficient, and any time […]
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Tags: binary, c, compiler, microcontroller, msp430, optimisation, size
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