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by magicalist 4049 days ago
> They're doing this to be able to run Node.js apps on Windows 10 ARM (on which V8 supposedly doesn't run?)

V8 definitely has an ARM runtime, so maybe this is a result of the restrictions on what's allowed to run on the platform? (e.g. iOS and Windows Phone don't allow JIT compilers except the ones provided by the platform itself)
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gsnedders 4049 days ago
I'd guess, at the very least, that it doesn't support the Win/ARM ABI.
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magicalist 4049 days ago
The issue is really what has been eliminated from the API. This is one of the ways they prevent you from generating your own executable code. See, e.g. this (closed) V8 bug for adding Windows Phone support: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2427
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gsnedders 4049 days ago
Right, this is true for WP and WinRT; it's not clear that the same is true for the IoT Win10/ARM builds?
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