Hi Jordan,
Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
If you're going down that path, you should see if you can get
TenFourFox to compile. TenFourFox does have a jit and supports altivec.
http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
https://github.com/classilla/tenfourfox
I do know, having contributed to TenFourFox myself. However, things are
not so easy: TFF is optimized specifically for one Mac version, 10.4 and
PowerPC.
While I assume that the JIT can be generalized and implanted into
ArcticFox (or maybe even into official FireFox?) it is added and
#ifdef'd specifically for Mac, so not easy at all.
ArcticFox, while intending to target also older macs (but not 10.4)
intends to remain Unix compatible and portable!
We are already importing endian fixes and AltiVec optimizations, but the
JIT will be harder.
So, in case, patches for ArcticFox are appreciated.
Riccardo
