Re: AArch64 port of Chez Scheme

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 19/11/2020 12:43, David Brown wrote:
> I'm not aware of anyone working on it. It might be worthwhile to at least 
> create a github issue for it (there is one for RISC-V). The code generator in 
> Chez is fairly custom, but there are a lot of similarities between aarch32 
> and aarch64, so it would be a relatively easier port.
> 
> Porting Chez to aarch64 would also be a big springboard to getting Racket 
> working on aarch64.
> 
> David

Thanks for the information David, I will check this out.
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Re: AArch64 port of Chez Scheme

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 20/11/2020 13:39, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
> 
> On 19/11/2020 12:43, David Brown wrote:
>> I'm not aware of anyone working on it. It might be worthwhile to at least 
>> create a github issue for it (there is one for RISC-V). The code generator 
>> in Chez is fairly custom, but there are a lot of similarities between 
>> aarch32 and aarch64, so it would be a relatively easier port.
>>
>> Porting Chez to aarch64 would also be a big springboard to getting Racket 
>> working on aarch64.
>>
>> David
> 
> Thanks for the information David, I will check this out.
> 

It turned out that it seems aarch64 is already support a recent
port:

 

The port is mentioned in the Racket 7.8 release announcement.  I don't
know why it hasn't been merged upstream yet.
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Re: AArch64 port of Chez Scheme

[David Brown]

I suspect Racket's use of ChezScheme dominates all other uses of
ChezScheme. I'm not even sure how active the upstream really is.

David

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:16 PM Adhemerval Zanella <
adhemerval.zane...@linaro.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 20/11/2020 13:39, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 19/11/2020 12:43, David Brown wrote:
> >> I'm not aware of anyone working on it. It might be worthwhile to at
> least create a github issue for it (there is one for RISC-V). The code
> generator in Chez is fairly custom, but there are a lot of similarities
> between aarch32 and aarch64, so it would be a relatively easier port.
> >>
> >> Porting Chez to aarch64 would also be a big springboard to getting
> Racket working on aarch64.
> >>
> >> David
> >
> > Thanks for the information David, I will check this out.
> >
>
> It turned out that it seems aarch64 is already support a recent
> port:
>
>  
>
> The port is mentioned in the Racket 7.8 release announcement.  I don't
> know why it hasn't been merged upstream yet.
>
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