[HN Gopher] Compiling OCaml to the TI-84 CE Calculator
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       Compiling OCaml to the TI-84 CE Calculator
        
       Author : farlow
       Score  : 90 points
       Date   : 2025-05-17 22:40 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | debugnik wrote:
       | This is cool! After the removal of all 32-bit targets from the
       | native OCaml compiler, I had grown concerned about the
       | portability of OCaml beyond the interpreter and Jsoo. But between
       | this and the wasm efforts I see there are more escape hatches
       | than I thought.
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       | Consider sharing this in discuss.ocaml.org as well!
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | The CPU is an eZ80 clocked at 48MHz
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_eZ80#Use_in_commercial_p...
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       | which uses 24 bit pointers for a 16M address space. I like it as
       | it is clearly superior to the '8-bit' machines of the 1980s but a
       | step below ARM.
        
         | kragen wrote:
         | Below ARM in what metric? It's not below ARM in cost, power
         | consumption, or transistor count. It's below ARM in aesthetic
         | appeal and convenience, certainly, but why would you want that?
        
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