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Wouldn't it be interesting if Jasper could be a good choice for embedded systems too? This is not one of my main goals, but Lua is inspiring in that it seems it started out just trying to a small, portable, simple, language suitable for embedding into host applications, and it turned out to be suitable for running on low-end hardware too.
Jasper has similar, if different, goals, so maybe we can think about targetting low-end hardware too. Our similar goals are: simplicity; embeddability into host applications, because it's hard to start using a new language if you have to write a project entirely in that language, but easier if you can start by adding new functionality to an existing project in the new language. Unlike Lua, we are not as concerned with performance, however.
PIC AVR ARM Intel Quark
ARM L1 cache
486 had 8K of L1 cache
Uses an ARM1176JZF-S processor, which was also used by the iPod Touch and many smartphones. (Broadcom BCM2835 SoC? with a GPU) at 700Mhz. The ARM1176JZF-S can have L1 cache configured from 4k to 64k.
This book claims that the Pi's L1 instruction cache is 16k and the L1 data cache is 16k.
Intel Quark SoC? X1000
16 Kbyte shared instruction and data L1 cache.
"The SoC?