When we introduced the equivalent instructions in arm64 we got about 5%
speed up in Kraken (mostly in the crypto tests).

If there are no intentions to use armv8 in 32-bit mode then shall we close
this CL and resurrect it if the need arise?


On 20 June 2014 14:09, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2014/06/20 11:40:07, ulan wrote:
>
>> [+Ross for Android perspective]
>>
>
>  I wonder about cost vs benefit of this change. At the moment we do not
>> test or
>> run benchmarks for Aarch32. After this change we will have to. I am not
>> sure
>>
> of
>
>> there are embedders that going to run 32-bit V8 on arm64. Do you have any
>> in
>> mind?
>>
>
> From the point of view of Chrome on Android, we don't have any plans to
> target
> aarch32 currently.  The plan is that we run targeting aarch64 on arm-v8
> chips,
> so I don't think there would be any situations where we would run on an
> arm-v8
> chip and not be using the arm64 backend (this may change in the future of
> course).  The Android WebView will run both on 32bit and 64 bit processes,
> so we
> could conceivably target aarch32 instructions there if we probed and found
> we
> were running on an arm-v8 chip.  I'm not sure if this would be worth it
> though -
> Do these instructions make significant performance improvements over armv7?
>
>
> https://codereview.chromium.org/322423003/
>
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