Hi Jean-Baptiste,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Jean Baptiste Arnaud <jbaptiste.arnaud@gmail.com> wrote:

On 18 Jan 2014, at 09:09, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

One of the problem we are thinking about now is the FFI on ARM (alien or not alien)�.
+1, we need to think the, best solution is to have NativeBoost on ARM.�
We need an agreement between, time to develop and usage.
Maybe first I should fix Alien or FFI. Then one day, port Nativeboost on ARM.

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Did you see the thread on vm-dev about the ARM FFI? �When I wrote the FFI-replacement ThreadedFFIPlugin (which is the standard FFI plugin in Cog) I added stubs for ARM and PowerPC. �I hope that Doug McPherson is going to be able to fully implement these stubs. �If you're interested perhaps you could collaborate? �I'm confident that the effort involved in getting this going is a week or two at most. �Days for someone who well understands alloca and the ARM ABI.

On 17 January 2014 22:59, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
Who is JB ?


Jean Baptiste Arnaud. The invaluable asset in any team :)
The hacker who without any help configuring & compiling VM on raspberry.

Oh, for real,�I'm flattered.


Good to know.

Thanks Jean-Baptiste !




Best Regards
Jean Baptiste Arnaud










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