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> Chrome works on every platform. Except anything MIPS-based. Or Power. Or in fact anything that isn't x86 or ARM. And it's not just a matter of compiling i
by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Chrome works on every platform.
Except anything MIPS-based. Or Power. Or in fact anything that isn't x86 or ARM.
And it's not just a matter of compiling it for those platforms. There's a bunch of architecture-specific porting that would have to be done (e.g. you _have_ to implement a V8 backend; there is no platform-independent way to run V8 just with a C++ compiler).
- gibfahn 9y ago(Thanks partly to Node) V8 works on Power (LE & BE, Linux & AIX), I'm pretty sure it works on MIPS (https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/master/src/mips64 https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/master/src/mips64), and you can even get in on z/OS (https://developer.ibm.com/node/sdk/ztp/ https://developer.ibm.com/node/sdk/ztp/)! Not sure about Chromium support on those platforms, but V8 support is pretty impressive.
- bzbarsky 9y agoI stand corrected. V8 had no support for anything other than x86 (32 and 64 bit) and ARM last I had looked at it!