@Andrea, What @Lior said is completely right, as you can see below:
https://www.power.org/power-org-corporate-members http://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/current-members ________________________________ From: Lior Kaplan <lio...@zend.com> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:58 To: Andrea Faulds Cc: Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa; internals@lists.php.net; hannes.magnus...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] FW: PowerPC64 support On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me<mailto:a...@ajf.me>> wrote: On 24 Jul 2014, at 12:17, Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa <gustavo.pedr...@eldorado.org.br<mailto:gustavo.pedr...@eldorado.org.br>> wrote: > I and my team are involved in changes for architecture-specific > implementations, > specifically PowerPC64, in favor of expand the support and performance in the > PHP. How widely used is the PowerPC64 architecture? Is it really worth adding yet another set of inline asm that will have to be updated if we changed these operators? For the first question - you'll probably will see an increase due to the OpenPower and IBM's POWER8. Kaplan
