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Re:Toyota's firmware: Bad design and its consequences by arink on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @11:50PM (#6639364)
Primarily size. When you have 256k or less to work with, you don't have much choice.

Specific to Erlang: http://www.erlang.org/faq/implementations.html (see 8.9)

Re:Toyota's firmware: Bad design and its consequences by Fr0styMatt on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @12:15AM (#6639460)
Ah, thanks for the link.

It's easy to forget how small the RAM budgets still are in some parts of the embedded world.