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> In some extreme cases, developers had to write assembly code by hand for the four supported architectures. Maybe I'm tainted from my experience building / de
by ShroudedNight 8y ago
> In some extreme cases, developers had to write assembly code by hand for the four supported architectures.
Maybe I'm tainted from my experience building / debugging J9 / OpenJ9 but... Why is this considered extreme? If one strays one iota from the standard platform ABI, which is basically a necessity for producing a performant runtime (PICs being an easy example), this is where one ends up.