Hi :) On Sun 26 Jan 2020 07:19, William ML Leslie <william.leslie....@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, 4:46 pm William ML Leslie, > <william.leslie....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, 8:20 am John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > I noticed that you recently purged hppa support from guile [1]. > > This change does not remove hppa support from guile, only support for > the jit. > > As an ia64 user, i'm a bit sad that we lost jit too - but i don't run > any performance-sensitive guile jobs on that system. > > Maybe /lost/ is the wrong word. We won't be benefitting from the work > the lightning team have done in supporting hacker-friendly > architectures in guile 3. This jit is completely new. William is correct. HPPA support is not gone from Guile; and indeed it's good to hear from you :) I wasn't sure there were any IA64 users remaining. Initially in Guile I planned to use GNU Lightning, in part because of its great platform support. However it turned out to not be the right thing, and reluctantly I ended up doing something that was more like a rewrite than a refactor. In that context I personally don't have the budget to write the IA64 backend. So, Guile 3 still runs on IA64, just without JIT support. If someone would like to write an IA64 backend for Lightening, I would be happy to accept it :) The beginnings of one are there in the git history. Andy
