Paulo Matos and I have recently started porting Chez Scheme to the ARM and RISC-V ISAs. We'll be focusing on the 64-bit versions. The goal is to get Racket CS to run on those architectures.
Motivation: ARM has rapidly grown over the years, and there is speculation that Apple may soon adopt ARM in their PCs and laptops (see, e.g., https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/23/bloomberg-arm-macs). ARM is already used in the iPhones and iPads, whereas their laptops, desktops, and workstations are all x86. In the mid-2000s, Apple switched from PowerPC to x86, which is where we Mac users are today. The thinking is that a similar switch might occur in the near-ish future, and it makes sense to get Racket ready for that. RISC-V is an exciting new(ish) architecture (or, better, family of architectures). It has deep roots in academic hardware research, and is even open source. So far, RISC-V-based desktops, laptops, and servers are somewhat uncommon (though they do exist), but they'll probably be coming. To our knowledge, no one is currently working on porting Chez Scheme to aarch64, nor for rv64. If you are aware of such efforts, please let us know. We welcome comments and suggestions. Work will take place in Paulo's clone of the Racket clone of Chez Scheme: https://github.com/pmatos/ChezScheme Jesse & Paulo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/ca603d5e-ee86-4ccc-a94f-81e01b49ebd5%40googlegroups.com.
