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? _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
