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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
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Yes, there has been some discussion around releasing ARM binaries for Windows, particularly as ARM-based devices gain popularity. While x86 emulation on ARM is functional and seamless for many apps, it does tend to result in some performance overhead, as you've noticed with slower load times and small pauses. For core applications, this may not be as noticeable, but for more demanding software, native ARM support could significantly improve performance. It’s definitely something worth considering for future releases to optimize efficiency on ARM devices.
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November 21, 2024, 09:22:30 AM
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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

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November 21, 2024, 05:04:36 AM
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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.
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November 21, 2024, 04:04:30 AM
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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
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November 09, 2024, 07:59:13 AM
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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
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