Am 19.10.2012 15:13, schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
Sven Barth wrote:
[This should have gone to the list, instead of Florian directly]
On 18.10.2012 20:55, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 18.10.2012 13:24, schrieb Pierre Free Pascal:
>> Are you resurrecting m68k port?
>>
>> Just a guess, of course...
>
> Too late, but it would have been my guess as well. The tale misses
only
> the very sad part about the two children who never made it to life ;(
I see that I should have waited a bit longer then ^^
Yes... that could be mentioned as well... (and what about "vis"? )
though Itanium looks in my opinion more dead for real than M68k
(considering the existance of Coldfire)... and Alpha is also only
available if you can find a legacy system
I'd love to see an Itanium port, but I don't think it's realistic in
view of the limited number of manufacturers shipping systems based on it
and the known difficulty of filling the bundles. I haven't had a chance
of looking at GCC output to see how well their backend does, but the
last I heard it was difficult to get even 75% utilisation. Add to that
the the opcode set etc. is weird: SPARC-style register windows with none
of the charm.
I wouldn't wonder if Alpha was sold more than Itanium ;)
To my surprise I've got an Alpha system, but my understanding is that
nobody's making silicon any more. Since Chinese manufacturers appear to
have settled on MIPS as their non-x86 of choice, I don't see much future
for it.
That nobody is producing Alpha (or Alpha-like) chips anymore is the
biggest problem with it. So only have legacy devices and emulators to
work on...
Vis, LLVM, and- of course- the Android and JVM ports are obviously
valuable. Apart from that the only architecture that FPC doesn't support
is the IBM S/390.
As Android and JVM ports are working ports I don't say anything about
them (especially since I already used the Android port to write an
application for my phone). The LLVM port is not even in trunk yet, so I
don't say anything about it either. But I don't know what state Vis is
in especially since I don't know what VM it does use exactly.
Regards,
Sven
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