On 28 May 2012 19:50, Perry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I appears that no one has done a PowerPC port of V8. I found a few starts > but no completions. First wanted to verify that.
That's right. > On a related topic, was using LLVM considered? I don't really know much > about LLVM but it seems to be parts and pieces for compilers. It may have > been easier to hook in to machine specific backends this way. The hype notwithstanding, LLVM is rather unsuitable for building a VM, let alone one with fast jitting. It also is not particularly platform independent, see e.g. http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/043719.html /Andreas -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
