Re: M1 Port - Why PPC64 rather than the Arm32 port?

The 32-bit Arm architecture is very different from the 64-bit architecture and isn’t a good starting point.

The better question is why PPC64 instead of x86-64? The main reason is that, like Arm64, PPC64 has 32 registers vs. 16 for x86-64.

  - Gary


> On Dec 31, 2023, at 5:53 AM, Bruce O'Neel <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I made this a separate message to not pollute the other thread.
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> More for curiosity rather than anything else, but, why is the PPC64 port the best to start from?  I would have naively guessed the Arm32 port.
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> Thanks.
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> bruce  
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