Very interesting. We "may" have an interest in it on PPC as well and, if so, 
perhaps we can share our findings and see if we might get the branch moving 
again.

- Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: David Edelsohn [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:49 AM
To: Maciej Fijalkowski
Cc: Mike Mezeul; [email protected]; Ivan Sichmann; Andre Borba
Subject: Re: [pypy-dev] PyPy support for PPC processors

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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