On Apr 1, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Alex Martelli wrote:
On 2004 Apr 01, at 00:07, Bengt Richter wrote:
Here is IBM's announcement:
http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/news/2004/0331_power.html
Wow.
How would pypy adapt-to/have-an-advantage-in-exploiting the existence of such aFirst of all, it seems to me, by having a generator for PPC machine code -- which, it seems, was one of the things dropped from our projects due to reduced funding:-(. With PPC (in the form of plain unadorned G5) pulsing at the core of supercomputers ("Big Mac" at Virginia Tech), IBM mainframes, Apple 1U servers, down to high-end Apple PCs, and soon, probably, laptops, and also a serious contender for the next generation of gaming consoles (apparently both Sony and Microsoft are considering it), _and_ now even potentially "extensible" in such ways, I think that if I had to nominate just one chip architecture to generate machine code for it would have to be PPC (the fact that I'm a recent and enthusiastic Mac owner is not really related, except in stemming partly from the same reason -- I've revisited PPC architecture in the wake of all the recent hoopla about G5 and it appears that there _is_ a lot to like about it). Ah well -- I do realize that, with our limited resources, the near ubiquitousness of the [expletive deleted] descendants of Intel 80386 makes it most likely impractical and impolitical to eschew supporting their bedraggled complexity in favour of PPC's clean and powerful extensibility:-(.
configurable h/w platform?
I'm sure a PPC code generator will get done eventually, even if I have to do it myself on my own time :)
-bob
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