[Debian-ppc64-devel] I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project.

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Hiroyuki Yamamoto <yama1066 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> and because Cell and Xenon machines exist chiefly to our regret as game machines at present.
> 
> Cell blades are being marketed by IBM (for instance the QS2x series.

Oops, I forget them, but they are so expensive for me :-)

> I'm sitting on one of those ;P). Again, 64-bit code performs 15 to 25%
> slower on ppc processors than the equivalent 32-bit code. 64-bit code
> on power processors has very limited usefulness, only for some very
> specific workloads. At the very least, a complete 64-bit distribution
> would only provide a huge penalty loss.

I know it.
I understand that the former ppc64 porting work was canceled because of it.
Therefore, I am hesitating in the ppc64 porting direction for VMX-128,
though this option is not possible to specify now.
(The ppc64 port should be led for high-end servers?)

I think that such experiments should be continued for the future.
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Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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