Re: luajit porting to wp8 arm version

  • From: Paulo Matias <syscoder@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 13:58:48 -0300

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As much as I don't care about WP8, a Thumb-2 port may actually be a
> good idea in the long run. Android defaults to Thumb mode (but it's
> not so boneheaded as to enforce it like WP8 does) and the reduced
> cache pressure from the smaller size of Thumb code can make some
> programs faster, so there's a lot more Thumb code floating around
> these days. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing CPU designs
> that optimize Thumb code at the expense of non-Thumb code.

Also Thumb2 support would allow to port LuaJIT to microcontrollers
like STM32. But one would need to put external RAM, and then it starts
to look a little nonsensical.

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