SIMD support...

Piotr Szturmaj bncrbme at jadamspam.pl
Wed Jan 11 04:23:06 PST 2012


Danni Coy wrote:
> I was rather under that only the new html5 api would be available under
> windows 8 arm - that they were doing a iOS walled garden type thing with
> it - if true this could make things difficult...

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/ssinofsky/2011/09-13BUILD.mspx?rss_fdn=Custom

"[...] And you have your choice of world-class development tools and 
languages. JavaScript, C#, VB, C++, C, HTML, CSS, XAML, all for X86-64 
and ARM.

This is an extremely important point: If you go and build your Metro 
style app in JavaScript and HTML, in C# or in XAML, that app will just 
run when there's ARM hardware available. So, you don’t have to worry 
about that. Just write your application in HTML5, JavaScript and C# and 
XAML and your application runs across all the hardware that Windows 8 
supports. (Applause.)

And if you want to write native code, we're going to help you do that as 
well and make it so that you can cross-compile into the other platforms 
as well. So, full platform support with these Metro style applications."

It means Win8 ARM will be limited to Metro apps only, but you will be 
able to choose HTML/CSS/JS, .NET or native code.


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