Has there been any chatter about putting out binaries for ARM on Windows?
I was tinkering with it recently and, even though I didn’t install core since it’s not my laptop, I could definitely notice how much faster native apps run compared to those using X86 emulation.
They say X86 on ARM works smoothly... and it does... but you can just sense it’s working harder for X86 apps than for ARM ones. You get these small lags, longer loading times, stuff like that.
It probably wouldn’t make a huge difference for core, but it’s something worth considering.
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
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