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reticulatedpines
reticulatedpines
Fat binaries for modules?
ARMv7 cams have Thumb, but modules are built only as ARMv5 / ARM, for compatibility reasons. We have a custom loader via tcc anyway, so we could perhaps build these as fat binaries, containing a Thumb and non-Thumb build, with the loader detecting the best choice to load.
The Thumb builds have quite a lot less memory footprint (and presumably some speed improvement, as well as lower I-cache pressure).
ARMv5te supports Thumb (just 1, not 2?) so it might be an option there as well. This might mean three builds per file is optimal, but we have a lot more disk space than memory so I think this would be fine.
