---- tim Rowledge <tim@rowledge.org> wrote:

On 02-02-2015, at 9:24 AM, Douglas McPherson <djm1329@san.rr.com> wrote:

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ARMv6 stack/v3 and stack/spur VMs updated accordingly.

We’ll soon be adding ARMv7 quadcore Pi support - http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-2-on-sale/

I’ve been using one for some time now and it is certainly nicely faster. The multiple cores make quite a difference to overall system performance even if Squeak can’t directly take advantage. The memory interface seems faster too.

I was going to ask you about this as I saw the RPi 2 announcement today. I figured you probably already had one :) I haven’t been building the ARMv7 VMs recently since there is something broken in the ARM fast BitBlt enhancements for ARMv7, which I haven’t had time to look into. Have you been able to make any improvements to that? (There’s also some potential issues noted by Ken Dickey regarding atomic operations). Doug

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