Plans to add no_std support?
drewstone opened this issue · 4 comments
It's mentioned but is it live?
Also happy to discuss funding options to get this implemented if it isn't.
Hello Drew!
In principle there are only one thing that prevent core functionality from being no_std: vectors in some places.Those can be replaced by something like arrayvec with a reasonable bound. I didn't do it cause there was no feedback or direct demand for it.
If you also want to make things like mapping "field-to-curve" compatible with no_std then it would require a little more tinkering due to once_cell and BigUint.
First part I will fix eventually (no time estimates), but not sure about the second one.
Awesome to hear @shamatar, let me know if there's interest in setting this up as an Edgeware grant and I'd be happy to propose it to our Treasury/democracy system.
With regards to BigUint, I believe there's a no_std feature of num to handle arithmetic without the std lib but don't know much about once_cell.
Hello Drew.
I've missed you comment last week, but in general I'd welcome a grant proposal even though it's unlikely that I'd do this changes myself. Ideally someone more familiar with no_std would be much better candidate here.