SIMD support...

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 11-01-2012 13:23, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
> 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.

If they have ported the Common Language Runtime to ARM, I doubt they 
would put some arbitrary limitation on what apps can run on that 
hardware. All things considered, AArch32/64 are coming soon.

Besides, Windows running on ARM is not a new thing; see Windows Mobile 
and Windows Phone 7. By now, their ARM support should be as good as 
their x86 support.

- Alex