15 Oct
2011
15 Oct
'11
9:39 a.m.
Right now as
we speak I'm writing a POWER macroassembler for Mozilla's
JavaScript interpreter, which turns bytecodes into one:many POWER assembly
instructions. I'm modelling the memory access on SPARC and the ALU work on
ARM. It's going to be a curious hybrid when I'm finished (about 33%).
Are you writing this up anywhere? Sounds interesting. TenFourFox* is awesome, by the way.
You might want to add on its homepage that Opera has also abandoned
PowerPC, but never even finished debugging the most recent and
crash-prone PPC releases, adding insult to injury.
I'm trying to accentuate the positive :)
That said, I see few people in PPC land hanging onto Opera. People seem to
prefer Camino, Firefox 3.6 or Safari. I don't know why more people don't
use OmniWeb; it's quite good and is my choice when I have to use WebKit.
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