[polyml] Git master update: ARM64, PIE and new bootstrap process

2021-05-15 Thread David Matthews
Now that 5.8.2 has been released I've updated Git master with some changes that have been in the pipeline for some time. These affect a number of issues so they probably need a bit of explanation. These are: a basic code-generator for 64-bit ARM, position-independent executables and a new

Re: [polyml] Git master update: ARM64, PIE and new bootstrap process

2021-05-15 Thread Florian Weimer
* David Matthews: > ARM64 > There doesn't seem to be any measurable > difference in speed by using these instructions compared with the ones > without the memory barriers although the code is slightly longer. Did you benchmark this on the M1 only, or on other AArch64 implementations as well?

Re: [polyml] Git master update: ARM64, PIE and new bootstrap process

2021-05-15 Thread David Matthews
On 15/05/2021 14:10, Florian Weimer wrote: * David Matthews: ARM64 There doesn't seem to be any measurable difference in speed by using these instructions compared with the ones without the memory barriers although the code is slightly longer. Did you benchmark this on the M1 only, or on