Some students from Unicamp and I are working to update the PowerPC branch.

The earlier effort stalled when the port encountered a garbage
collection corruption that neither I nor the PyPy core developers
could solve. Some additional GC debugging aids have since been added,
but by that time, I and the original student had run out of time.

- David

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Maciej Fijalkowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> lack of interest. The PPC stuff is not as widely used as ARM or x86,
> so core developers were not that interested.
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:59 AM, Mike Mezeul <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Does anyone have any insight as to why the support for Power PC processors
>> has stalled?

>> I’m specifically interested in knowing if it was technical hurdles or just
>> lack of interest. If technical, could someone please elaborate on what the
>> issues are?
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