Core on Windows with ARM processors

[DaveF]

Has there been any discussion on compiling / releasing binaries on ARM for Windows?

Was working on one of them the other day and although I didn't install core since it's not my laptop I could feel the speed difference between native apps and the X86 emulation.

They said X86 on ARM is seamless....it is...but you can just feel that it's working a lot harder on X86 apps then ARM apps. Small pauses, longer load times, that kind of thing.

Probably would not matter much for core but it's something to think about.

-Dave

[NotATether]

I just posted this query to the bitcoin-dev mailing list. Maybe it could be done with Visual Studio but I'm not sure.

https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/PAvKQlqZVl4

[ABCbits]

A bit off-topic, but i wonder whether you'll get better performance if you run Bitcoin Core (Linux ARM 64-bit version) on WSL. After all, WSL already support using ARM-version of the supported Linux distro.

[DaveF]

A bit off-topic, but i wonder whether you'll get better performance if you run Bitcoin Core (Linux ARM 64-bit version) on WSL. After all, WSL already support using ARM-version of the supported Linux distro.

I figure when the next generation of ARM stuff for Windows arrives I will pick up one of the current gen as a leftover and play with it a bit. Although by then someone else probably would have done it and posted about it.

If it's a simple cross compile it's surprising that nobody has done it yet. If it's a bit more involved, I can see it not happening until there is a larger demand.

-Dave