[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] GSoC: ARM jitter for Squeak VM

[Eliot Miranda]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Carla F. Griggio
<carla.griggio at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello!
> I'm copying Lars and Eliot, who worked on this project during the summer,
> so maybe they can update everyone on the state of the project.
>

It is in progress.  Lars has completed the code generator and is working on
the C calling interface.  There are some changes required to the inline
cache machinery to accomodate the ARM's use of a link register (essentially
the contents of the link register needs to be pushed on and popped from the
stack at the right points so that the rest of the VM sees the same stack
layout as on x86).  So the system isn't ready yet, but it isn't a long way
away either.  Lars is actively working on it when time allows.

HTH
Eliot



>
> Cheers,
> Carla.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 23 November 2012 10:49, Dan Corneanu <cdan at savatech.ro> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I would really like to have a CogVM for ARM. I am a rookie in this
>> field but I
>> > own a raspberry pi and would love to help in any way possible to move
>> this
>> > forward. Testing maybe ?
>>
>> The interpreter VM works perfectly on the Raspberry, so you can at
>> least get your Smalltalk fix while folks work on Cog.
>>
>> frank
>>
>>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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