> On Sep 5, 2017, at 10:51 AM, Olmstead, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
Not really. Because of the poor state of that code, I think we should rip it out. Also maintaining the 32_64 value representation is no value for us. -Filip > > -----Original Message----- > From: webkit-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Filip Pizlo > Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 8:37 AM > To: Adrian Perez de Castro <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > 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 <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:38:09 +0200, Osztrogonác Csaba <[email protected]> >>> 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
