On 08/14/2018 09:54 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > there is a lot of good stuff, but also hold your breath. I am working on the > code to generalize his work so that it works on x86-32bit (64bit is currently > off-limits for the code, it would need even more work to remove Carbon) so > that it can be used on older intel macs too. It is absolutely not an easy > task, I > have been working closely with Cameron for months: his code was worked for > years against a single OS and CPU target. So in my case it had endianness > issues, > which are to a larger extent fixed.
Did you port the WebAssembly stuff to PowerPC? Because that's actually one of the things that keep Firefox from building on 32-Bit PowerPC. For 64 bit, it doesn't seem to need any additional code, I just had to add a few lines upstream to get sparc64 to build, for example. > We have a x86 build working as a proof, but I did not release anything to the > public since it is not as stable as the PPC version, although it proves how > much > can be "squeezed" from older Macs. On which Firefox version is this based? > By analyzing the code, I can tell you that a lot would be needed to get them > on non-Mac systems. Of course, it could be done. Not sure what should be Mac-specific here? The JIT and WebAssembly stuff is not platform-specific, just arch-specific - as far as I know. > I'm not sure Quantum is better in anything. On NetBSD I am using the > rust-based Firefox and it appears more bloated and trade-off memory with > performance. Also, > I personally dislike the "new" interface, but that is taste. > Rust is a pain and slow to death, slower actually. I build it on x86 machines > which are faster than all G4 machines I know and it takes hours/days. We > already > have pain with gcc and clang... now rust, oh, man. Rust is unfortunately currently broken on 32-Bit PPC and I have been bisecting the bug for days now: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/50960 Bisecting Rust is a completely pain in the as since the git history is completely non-linear. > Perhaps Pale Moon could be ported to PPC? The community is not that happy > with ports/forks apparently though, although it appears to be only a naming > issue and > an issue of dependent libraries. PaleMoon should just build fine on PPC since it's just an older Firefox. In fact, I actually submitted some patches to PaleMoon upstream to fix the build on m68k (although I think it's missing some alignment patches) ;). I have more patches for PaleMoon in the queue to fix the build on sh4, for example. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
