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by freilanzer 1135 days ago
> 1. I run Julia on my smartphone and often use it as calculator.

How?

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You could probably run Termux and launch a REPL from the command line?
I launch pluto from fedora running in termix, then I have a tab open in firefox pointed at localhost and have a pluto notebook to do stuff in. I don't do this often, typing in phones is hard for me.

Edit: I almost like unicodeplots.jl better though. Its much lighter weight and still lets me figure out most stuff I use plotting for. Through a ssh session if necessary.

Great way to eat a quarter gig of RAM before doing anything on a small compute device...
Probably less RAM than the average browser tab uses. 250MB of RAM? I've forgotten how to count that low.

Today's smartphone has higher specs than my $10,000 workstation from 10 years ago.

Compare the Julia repls memory consumption and resources used vs python for using it as a calculator. Looking at orders of magnitude in different resources consumed and time to first anything especially on a computer restrained device...Better yet do the same as the unix tool BC. I am very much aware of when I start tossing quarter to half gbs of RAM on small devices to do things like 1+1=2... Leave two or three of those open by being lazy/forgetful and yea there goes a huge chunk of RAM. To be fair I also don't spend thousands of dollars on the latest phones...