Hi folks, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Andrew Low and I work for IBM. I've been building runtime technology for almost 20 years, over that time I've built Smalltalk VMs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge), Java VMs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_J9), and I'm now working on JavaScript runtimes (and this means Node.js too!)
Since early this year I've been leading a small team porting V8 to PowerPC. If you're keen to follow along all of our work it up on GitHub https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc As most of you are aware, Node.js relies on V8 for it's javascript runtime. This has been a barrier to bringing Node.js to platforms that don't (yet) have a V8 port. Now that the V8 port to PowerPC is fairly feature complete, we're able to bring Node.js up on Power Linux. You can check the code out here: https://github.com/andrewlow/node - specifically the branch "v0.10.16-release-ppc" We're planning on giving all of this code back to the community - it's all there on GitHub now and licensed in the same manner as the original project. So far there are only a handful of changes to the Node.js code. There is also a public Jenkins continuous integration server building binaries: http://v8ppc.osuosl.org:8080/ Limitations: For now it's only 32bit (but the binaries will of course run just fine on 64bit systems). We're also stuck on the 0.10.x branch of Node for the time being. We will be working towards removing these limitations. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
