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

Tim Johnson digit at sonic.net
Tue Jul 7 03:03:32 UTC 2020


On Jul 6, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:53 AM Boris Shingarov <boris at shingarov.com>  
> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
> ..."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").
>
> Wonderful news!!  Why haven;t you committed anything so we can see  
> your work in progress??  Please, I'd love to see it.

+1 Me too!

Happy to test & experiment on various systems I have here.  They're  
all old G3, G4, G5s though:  no Raptor Talos II or Blackbird POWER ISA  
workstations in the apartment (yet?).

Thanks,
Tim


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