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.