[Vm-dev] Probably pointless endianness question re: Float changes circa 4.6

[tim Rowledge]

> On 2020-07-06, at 8:53 AM, Boris Shingarov <boris at shingarov.com> wrote:
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> On 7/5/20 6:05 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>  now is the best time ever to attempt a 64-bit or 32-bit PPC JIT
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> ..."attempt"??  I have most of it working already.  I'll ping you when I get it to the same point where we reached with i386 and arm (i.e. booting the Reader and being able to evaluate "100 factorial").
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Time for us to start designing an instruction set that properly supports dynamic translation and message sending etc. A Smalltalk that can run on trillions of cores! 


tim
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