On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Jeff Chimene <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in porting nodejs to IA64, specifically OpenVMS. > Would nodejs owners be interested in integrating the resulting patches > (assuming the patches meet the qualifications described in the contributing > guidelines). > I realize this question also has to be asked of Google w/r/t/ V8, libUV as > well as other, TBD parts of the kit. > > Cheers, > jec
Are you backed by a company or is this a personal project? I ask because your first task would be to port V8 (and get it accepted upstream + maintain it) and that's a massive undertaking, something that is unlikely to succeed when it's just a side project. V8 is essentially a JS to machine code compiler so you'd have to write a backend that speaks IA64. Have a look at the code in e.g. deps/v8/src/x64/ to get a taste of what that involves. Libuv is relatively trivial in comparison, that's probably no more than a few days of work. Patches are welcome. Node.js itself should require only minimal changes; nearly all platform-specific code lives in libuv. FWIW, I'm working on a port of node.js to Mozilla's SpiderMonkey engine with the express goal of supporting a wider range of architectures and operating systems. I'm primarily targeting SPARC, POWER and IA64 and the operating systems that run on them; AIX, HP-UX, Linux. Maybe OpenVMS should be on that list, too. I hadn't considered it until now. If or when the project will be released is anybody's guess, however. I'm working on it in my off hours right now and those are rare. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
