[Cuis-dev] FYI: Cuis on Aarch64 and fixes for current on Amd64

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

Bruce,

Thanks for the reminder.

The aarch64 OpenSmalltalk Cog currently has broken bignums (the lest 
time I checked, 100 factorial yielded a negative number).  But aside 
from bignums it is quite usable.

Probably best to use the stack interpreter for now, but I have been 
using the arm64 Cog vm for some time without problems.  I don't make 
much daily use of bignums and the JIT is quite snappy.

FYI,
-KenD

On 2020-06-26 05:54, Bruce O'Neel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The build instructions for the stack spur VM for ArmV8 are very simple.
> 
> cd build.linux64ARMv8/squeak.stack.spur/
> ./makeallclean
> mv build squeak
> 
> Cuis works just fine on an Arm64 bit system then.
> 
> Elliot is working very hard on the Cog JIT for this system, but, it is 
> not done.   But the Stack VM works just fine but a bit slower.
> 
> cheers
> 
> bruce