[pypy-dev] PyPy support for PPC processors

[Mike Mezeul]

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:dje.gcc at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:49 AM
To: Maciej Fijalkowski
Cc: Mike Mezeul; pypy-dev at python.org; 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 <fijall at gmail.com> 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 <MMezeul at advaoptical.com> 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?