On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 05:39:48PM -0300, Breno Leitao wrote: > Ok, since we will not even have VMX, I understand that we might not need a > POWER8, i.e, we can pursue initially with a POWER7. Does it make sense? > > Other than that, I will create a entry for you on one machine. But I am > wondering if we should go with powerpc arhc other than ppc64, since I am not > sure how stable is ppc64 right now. What is your recommendation? > > Also, feel free to send me your SSH pub key, so I can put on the VM.
I am trying to think of any benefit 64bit powerpc has over 32bit other than the memory space for the process and I don't know if there is any. After all the architecture was designed from the begining with both 32 and 64 bit in mind and hence I suspect they were meant to be as similar as possible in terms of register count and such. So I suspect you gain an increase the the process size along with the doubling of pointer size which is usually considered a disadvantage of course (although how much that matters depends on the application of course). -- Len Sorensen
