Generated code is too large

[stephanemagnenat]

Currently, in simple mode, children easily write long programs that fill the full memory of Thymio. However, this is often because events are duplicated. However, correcting #41 and #10 should make the memory limitation harder to reach.

Nevertheless, simple improvements could be made, as described in issues:

• 28: bitfileds in compiler are filled from the msb, generating large bytecode

• 29: VPL2 compiler currently generates dead code

[stephanemagnenat]

Based on experiments with 110 children in the course of one week by Dawn Onufrak-Suter from technologyinlearning.ch, this is actually a real limitation.

[stephanemagnenat]

Note that fixing issue #35 might correct this issue as a side effect.

[stephanemagnenat]

Recent structural changes in the compiler alleviate this problem. If this problem reappears, an optimisation for the reactive mode (only one thread) could be implemented.