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4:52:26
stylewarning
i hacked and slashed until it worked ("worked"), so who knows whose issue it is
4:53:38
karlosz
no clue - i've used the ppc64 port for like half a minute so i don't have a good idea what still remains
8:15:42
Krystof
I'd like it to happen, and would be happy to help, but it needs someone who can dedicate some concentrated time to it
8:17:06
no-defun-allowed
I have school holidays now and I'd like to have a go at it, but I've never poked around at a compiler before, and I don't know how much time it would take to add threading support.
8:54:56
Krystof
it's a little tricky, because arm is register-starved. At the moment, the arm32 port dedicates a register to NIL, but there really aren't any other spare registers, I think
8:55:33
Krystof
(and a thread-enabled port needs a register to hold the current thread). so I think the strategy should be to have NIL-value be stored within the thread structure
10:50:58
stassats
Krystof: register starvation hasn't really been a big deterrent for me, but having to write all the CAS loops and other synchronization primitives