[webkit-dev] arm jit

[Kenneth Christiansen]

Hi there,

I would also say that is it pretty understanding that Apple does not
share information about working on a ARM JIT targeting thumb2,
especially as this can be used to foresee the hardware of future
iPhone models. Something they are probably not interesting in
revealing.

I agree whole-hearted with Holger, that the chances for getting ARM
JIT enhancements upsteamed now have been greatly improved; and with
Apple working on the same code I would expect good reviews and lots of
care for the ARM code base.

We really rely on you guys for bringing the ARM JIT code to other
versions of ARM, and I would like to say that I consider your
contributions important and very welcome, and would like to encourage
your to keep contributing!

Please keep up the good work!

Kenneth



On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Holger Freyther<zecke at selfish.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:38:43 Akos Kiss wrote:
>> Dear Community,
>>
>> Today, we realized that there is a new ARM JIT port for WebKit.
>> (http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/44514) Congratulations on getting this
>> working!, great job.
>>
>> I cannot conceal how disappointed I am, as is the whole team at Szeged.
>
> I can understand how bad you feel and I agree that "Apple does not comment on
> future products."-mantra can suck at times. When you look at the ARM JIT of
> Apple you will see they mostly target Cortex-A8 (thumb2, vfp) and IIRC your
> JIT is much wider (supporting many more existing devices).
>
> So my bottom line is something like please don't give up, and contributing to
> the JIT should be more easy now. E.g. pick a topic/theme for your work and try
> to get it in.
>
> I can not share that WebKit is not a open community. Of course there are
> vendor interests and Apple, Nokia and Torchmobile don't share some of them.
> E.g. Apple probably does not see the value of XHTML MP, ECMA MP and WML and
> still these changes go on...
>
> z.
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