Great news! We would be very interested by an AIX port. PowerPC is a first step (and likely the most difficult one). Any plans for AIX?
Bruno On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 8:41:53 PM UTC+2, Andrew Low wrote: > > Hi folks, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Andrew Low and I work for IBM. > I've been building runtime technology for almost 20 years, over that time > I've built Smalltalk VMs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge), > Java VMs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_J9), and I'm now working on > JavaScript runtimes (and this means Node.js too!) > > Since early this year I've been leading a small team porting V8 to > PowerPC. If you're keen to follow along all of our work it up on GitHub > https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc > > As most of you are aware, Node.js relies on V8 for it's javascript > runtime. This has been a barrier to bringing Node.js to platforms that > don't (yet) have a V8 port. Now that the V8 port to PowerPC is fairly > feature complete, we're able to bring Node.js up on Power Linux. You can > check the code out here: https://github.com/andrewlow/node - specifically > the branch "v0.10.16-release-ppc" > > We're planning on giving all of this code back to the community - it's all > there on GitHub now and licensed in the same manner as the original > project. So far there are only a handful of changes to the Node.js code. > > There is also a public Jenkins continuous integration server building > binaries: http://v8ppc.osuosl.org:8080/ > > Limitations: For now it's only 32bit (but the binaries will of course run > just fine on 64bit systems). We're also stuck on the 0.10.x branch of Node > for the time being. We will be working towards removing these limitations. > -- -- 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.
