RE: [PHP-DEV] FW: PowerPC64 support
| From: | Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa | Date: | Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:58:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] FW: PowerPC64 support | ||
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@Andrea,
What @Lior said is completely right, as you can see below:
https://www.power.org/power-org-corporate-members
http://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/current-members
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From: Lior Kaplan <lior.k@zend.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:58
To: Andrea Faulds
Cc: Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa; internals@lists.php.net; hannes.magnusson@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] FW: PowerPC64 support
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me<mailto:ajf@ajf.me>> wrote:
On 24 Jul 2014, at 12:17, Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa <gustavo.pedrosa@eldorado.org.br<mailto: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