[racket-dev] ARM support in the JIT

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 8 16:58:50 EDT 2013

I've pushed changes to the JIT to add an ARM back-end, which is based
on Paulo César Pereira de Andrade's very nice implementation of GNU
lightning for ARM.

The generated code uses Thumb and VFP instructions when available, and
floating-point arithmetic is unboxed as on x86.

Places should work, although they're not currently enabled by default.
I have not yet added support for futures, and that will probably wait
until someone has a use for them.



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