Question: Is Windows-ARM64 (ARM64 on Windows) Support Planned?

[leet4tari]

Greetings ...

I’d like to ask whether there are any plans to support Windows on ARM64 (Windows-ARM64) in the RandomX project.

With the growing availability of ARM64-based Windows devices—such as the Surface Pro X and upcoming Snapdragon X Elite laptops—there’s increasing interest in running native applications, including benchmarking and mining tools, on this platform.

A few related points of interest:
ARM64 support already exists for Linux and macOS (Apple Silicon).

Windows-ARM64 is becoming more viable as a development and testing environment.

Native support could enable performance comparisons and mining experiments without relying on x64 emulation.

Are there any technical or practical reasons why Windows-ARM64 hasn't been supported so far? And is this something that could be considered for future development?

Thank you for your time and the continued work on RandomX!

[hyc]

ARM64 support exists for Linux and macOS because they were interesting platforms to use. Personally I would never go out of my way to buy a Windows ARM64 device.