Support ARM

[fdsagizi]

Hi!
It's possible to use JIT on iOS ?

[ThyReaper]

ARM is a very different architecture from x86. It would require a large rewrite of most of the JIT to support, and we have no machines to test with to implement it.

[fdsagizi]

You have not some iPhone or Android phone ? :) for test...

If it possible, it will very very cool, because - procesors on mobile devises not fast like PC, and currents scripts really bottleneck.

[TheExDeus]

How about Raspberry Pi or Jetson? At least RPi is cheap and easy to use. I would love to have the JIT work on it.

[ThyReaper]

I'm not familiar with either of those. If they are running x86 processors, it would hopefully be simple to write a device-specific version of the platform files, which I would gladly accept into the repo.

[BurningEnlightenment]

The RPis are ARM based single board computers and I guess the Jetsons are too (even though I never heard of them). So porting won't be straight forward as ThyReaper stated roughly a month ago.

[TheExDeus]

Yeah, sorry Raspberry Pi is a very popular ARM PC - http://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/
And Jetson is an ARM PC created by Nvidia - http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.html

Maybe Jetson isn't a good example, but Raspberry Pi can be bought for 35$, it's very popular and is very easy to use. It was my suggestion for a platform on which to test.

[quarnster]

FWIW I wrote an ARM JIT for AS back in 2009, but I never finished it and haven't touched it since neither: https://github.com/quarnster/asarmjit.