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Subject: Re: FreeBSD PowerPC Port
To: Curtis Hamilton <hamiltcl@verizon.net>,
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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!
>