[squeak-dev] ARM 64 Bit VM/Support?

Eric Gade eric.gade at gmail.com
Sun Feb 23 17:35:13 UTC 2020


Thanks for the update and all the hard work Eliot

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 12:25 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> On Feb 23, 2020, at 9:05 AM, Eric Gade <eric.gade at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday someone pointed out that there do not appear to be builds for
> the ARM VM in 64bit on the Squeak website. I actually don't see these in
> the regular OpenSmalltalkVM builds either. But there does appear to be a
> build folder for it in the official repo (
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Cog/build.linux64ARMv8
> )
>
> Is the VM (and Squeak generally) supported on 64-bit ARM?
>
>
> The stack build should be supported.  On Thursday & Friday I also got past
> the issue that was blocking progress on the ARMv8 JIT, so I hope to provide
> a production JIT version by April (the work is only partially funded).
>  “Supported” is an interesting phrase.  What does it mean when vm work,
> just like the rest of the image work, is essentially unfunded?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Eric
>
>
>
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