We have plans to add a JSC-Only windows bot in the very near future. Would that have any bearing on the state of JIT in Windows?
-----Original Message----- From: webkit-dev [mailto:webkit-dev-boun...@lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Filip Pizlo Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 8:37 AM To: Adrian Perez de Castro <ape...@igalia.com> Cc: webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Bring back ARMv6 support to JSC There isn’t anyone maintaining the 32-not JIT ports to the level of quality we have in our 64-not ports. Making 32-bit use the 64-bit cloop would be a quality progression for actual users of 32-bit. -Filip > On Sep 5, 2017, at 8:02 AM, Adrian Perez de Castro <ape...@igalia.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:38:09 +0200, Osztrogonác Csaba <o...@inf.u-szeged.hu> >> wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> Maybe it will be hard to say good bye to 32-bit architecutres for >> many people, but please, it's 2017 now, the first ARMv8 SoC is out 4 >> years ago, the first AMD64 CPU is out 14 years ago. > > While it's true that amd64/x86_64 has been around long enough to not > have to care (much) about its 32-bit counterpart; the same cannot be said > about ARM. > It would be great to be able to say that 32-bit ARM is well dead, but > we are not there yet. > > If we take x86_64 as an example, it has been “only” 10 years since the > last new 32-bit CPU was announced and until 3-4 years ago it wasn't > uncommon to see plently of people running 32-bit userlands. If things > unroll in a similar way in the ARM arena, I would expect good 32-bit > ARM support being relevant at least for another 3-4 years before the need > starts to fade away. > > If something, I think it may make more sense to remove 32-bit x86 > support, and have the 32-bit ARM support around for some more time. > > Cheers, > > > -- > Adrián 🎩 > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
