Re: FW: PowerPC64 support
| From: | Lior Kaplan | Date: | Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:58:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: FW: PowerPC64 support | ||
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> On 24 Jul 2014, at 12:17, Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa <
> gustavo.pedrosa@eldorado.org.br> wrote:
>
> > I and my team are involved in changes for architecture-specific
> implementations,
> > specifically PowerPC64, in favor of expand the support and performance
> in the PHP.
>
> How widely used is the PowerPC64 architecture? Is it really worth adding
> yet another set of inline asm that will have to be updated if we changed
> these operators?
>
For the first question - you'll probably will see an increase due to the
OpenPower and IBM's POWER8.
Kaplan