Re: work in arm64 branch or on main branch?

Linux distribution no, but I do have a PPC iMac with CCL installed that I am=
 willing to share as a server.
How out of-date is the PPC CCL compiler? Can that be concisely described?

--Tim

> On Mar 4, 2024, at 18:55, Robert Munyer <[email protected]> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFOn 6 January 2024, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:
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>> As I do little bits of work on an ARM64 port, is there any killer
>> benefit to keeping that work in a separate arm64 git branch? I was
>> thinking that committing to the main branch would make visibility
>> better, and as long as the main branch always builds, the overhead
>> of a long-lived branch seems not worth it.
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> When I thought about this question last summer, I concluded that
> the answer depends on the vintage of the code that's being modified.
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> If I were modifying code that's current as of CCL 1.12.2
> (e.g. the x86 compiler), I would put the changesets on trunk.
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> If I am modifying code that was last supported in CCL 1.10
> (e.g. the PPC compiler), I should make a new branch that starts
> at the last 1.10 changeset, to avoid having 1.10 code and 1.12.2
> code being developed in the same branch at the same time.
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> (Another option would be to start by upgrading the PPC code to
> 1.12.2, but I've had difficulty finding a Linux distribution that
> can run ppccl64; PPC64 Linux distros have gone little-endian.)
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> P.S. I don't claim any copyright on my arm64 changesets, so the
> files in my repo are IP of whoever owns the files in the main repo.
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> -- Robert Munyer
> https://ccl-arm64-2023-07.srht.site