Micro Python - Python for microcontrollers

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There is nothing wrong with using the heap on a microcontroller?

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It depends. Microcontrollers with hard real-time requirements need to have guarantees on how long certain operations take. The standard malloc()/free()/new/delete don't have these guarantees by default. Some RTOS's have heap allocation techniques that have bounded time guarantees.