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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:00:04 -0500
From:      "Curtis Hamilton" <hamiltcl@verizon.net>
To:        "'Toby Thain'" <toby@telegraphics.com.au>, "'Joe Nosay'" <superbisquit@gmail.com>
Cc:        <java@freebsd.org>,	<bsd-port-dev@openjdk.java.net>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD PowerPC Port
Message-ID:  <020901d168b1$92e31230$b8a93690$@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <56BF938A.2010408@telegraphics.com.au>
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It may be possible to use this code for OSX on G5 systems.  It would =
require additional work for to support 32-bit G4 systems.

-----Original Message-----
From: Toby Thain [mailto:toby@telegraphics.com.au]=20
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 3:35 PM
To: Curtis Hamilton <hamiltcl@verizon.net>; 'Joe Nosay' =
<superbisquit@gmail.com>
Cc: java@freebsd.org; bsd-port-dev@openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: FreeBSD PowerPC Port

On 2016-02-13 3:06 PM, Curtis Hamilton wrote:
> Thanks for the response, but I think you missed the point of my email.
>
> As I stated in my email, I've already built a Zero VM, interpreter =
based JDK.  That's what you get with the instructions you provided.
>
> My goal was building a true native PowerPC  (JIT) JDK, which until =
about 12 hours ago was only available for AIX and Linux.
>
> Using the Zero VM JDK and modifying the Linux PPC code, I've =
successfully built a true native PowerPC (JIT) JDK.  Which is an order =
of magnitude faster than the interpreted JDK.


Nice work!

I'd be interested to see a path to getting that working on the OS =
X/PowerPC target. Would you say it's feasible?

There is a working Zero build at least for JDK 7.
( ref https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/BSDPort/Darwin9Build )

--Toby


>
> BTW, I did the research and communicated with Greg, as well as others =
across the OpenJDK community.
>
> Regards!
>




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