Porting the Solana eBPF JIT compiler to ARM64

Published

2022-10-12 12:00

Collected

2026-07-03 04:04

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id: 1742
title: "Porting the Solana eBPF JIT compiler to ARM64"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/10/12/solana-jit-compiler-ebpf-arm64/"
published_at: "2022-10-12T12:00:55Z"
tags: ["web3", "research", "blockchain", "compilers", "solana"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/1742"
lang: en
---

# Porting the Solana eBPF JIT compiler to ARM64

## Summary

An internship project ports the RBPF JIT compiler used to execute Solana smart contracts to ARM64 — updating register allocation, calling conventions and instruction translation — plus x86 Windows support, now behind a feature gate pending review.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2022-10-12T12:00:55Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/10/12/solana-jit-compiler-ebpf-arm64/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/1742