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Haley: We're doing an ARM64 OpenJDK port!

Haley: We're doing an ARM64 OpenJDK port!

Posted Oct 26, 2012 9:12 UTC (Fri) by arnd (subscriber, #8866)
In reply to: Haley: We're doing an ARM64 OpenJDK port! by imgx64
Parent article: Haley: We're doing an ARM64 OpenJDK port!

I work on ARM stuff, so you can call me biased, but I certainly don't expect it to end up that way. Itanium's fault wasn't that it diverged from the older 32 bit architecture, but that it did a lot of extravagant things that had not been tried before in mainstream computing and that turned out to be a bad design choice in hindsight.

64-bit ARM is by comparison the most boring architecture you can imagine, it takes the 32 bit design, and replaces most of the oddities of that architecture with more common ideas from other RISC designs. Nothing to see here really, and that's how we like it!


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