From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson
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Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2021-10-19 21:26:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> As with the HPPA, a potential compromise is to spin up some newer
>> BSD-ish system on it.  I agree that OSX 10.4 is uninteresting as a
>> software platform, but I'd like to keep 32-bit PPC represented in
>> the farm.

> I assume the reason 32-bit PPC is interesting is that it's commonly run big
> endian?

Aside from bit width and endianness, I believe it's a somewhat smaller
instruction set than the newer CPUs.

> I wonder when it'll be faster to run 32bit ppc via qemu than natively :)

I think qemu would have a ways to go for that.  More to the point,
I've found that its emulation is not as precise as one might wish...

			regards, tom lane