Would love to try it out but unfortunately I don't have a PowerLinux box sitting around anywhere. Got one I can use for free? :-)
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/41582.wss http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/aixchange/2013/08/more-on-the-ibm-powerlinux-announcement.html On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:15:29 AM UTC-4, Andrew Low wrote: > > Performance is certainly going to be a big focus as we move forward with > the code base, but we're not quite there yet. > > It is too early to do performance testing - the whole team is focused on > function. > > The changes we needed to make to the Node.js code base are minimal > (trivial), if you go peek at the repository > https://github.com/andrewlow/node you can see they are focused on a > couple of endian issues and simply tweaking the GYP scripting to allow it > to build with the right options. > > Of course that is ignoring the port of V8 to PowerPC. You can find the > code embedded in the repository above, or look here for the latest version: > https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc All the development we're doing is in > the open, the GitHub repositories are the master code base the team is > working against day to day. > > In terms of performance on PowerPC - there are going to be two large > contributing factors. The quality of the code produced by GCC (and this may > vary based on the level, there is the Advance Toolchain to consider here). > The other factor is the V8 code (and quality) of the optimizations it > performs. Lower down on the list will be tweaks to the openssl (assembly) > and other open source projects that have optional assembly for > optimization. > > There is still some low hanging fruit in our V8 port to PowerPC - we'll > try to pick that sooner than later, but the real performance stuff is going > to come after we've successfully got the V8 and Node code we've created > adopted more broadly by the community - ideally we'll get our code into the > master repositories making it easy for everyone to get it and help keep it > current. > > This is by no means a closed project, the code is there on GitHub. Fork > it. Log issues. Contribute patches. > > If you're looking for PowerPC resources to work with - consider > http://osuosl.org/services > > On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:34:33 PM UTC-4, am_p1 wrote: >> >> Any benchmarks you can share? like on one of those 4.42 GHz POWER7+ chips? >> >> On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 2:41:53 PM UTC-4, 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.
