On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 1:45 PM 'John Paul Adrian Glaubitz' via v8-dev < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! > > I was wondering whether it would be possible to build a jitless V8 on > unsupported architectures such as sparc64. I have seen that V8 generally > supports a jitless interpretor-only mode [1] but it's not clear to me > whether it would also support unsupported architectures, i.e. those for > which exists no native codegen backend. > > Background is that the nodejs in Debian is not available on a number of > less common architectures such as alpha, hppa, powerpc32 and sparc64 etc > [2] despite machines being fast enough to run an interpreter. > > Does anyone know whether building a jitless V8 on an unsupported > architecture would generally work or does the jitless code still require > the codegen backends? > Hi Adrian, unfortunately yes, --jitless still requires codegen at V8-compile-time since it relies heavily on builtins and bytecode handlers, both of which are (mostly) generated by the CodeStubAssembler. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > > [1] https://v8.dev/blog/jitless > > [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=nodejs&suite=sid > > -- > -- > v8-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/3b6ed0f0-0991-4395-9cf1-fa915140bd5bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/3b6ed0f0-0991-4395-9cf1-fa915140bd5bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/CAH3p7oORdRSscnXy-0uWwQ8a1BFBYbMN1Jk2sTqVwn%3DpRGJO9A%40mail.gmail.com.
