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Sometimes people use oddball architectures specifically for the purpose of exercising the portability considerations in the source and/or build process. It ten
by pengaru 5y ago
Sometimes people use oddball architectures specifically for the purpose of exercising the portability considerations in the source and/or build process.
It tends to uncover bugs otherwise unnoticed, or just shortcomings in the abstractions.
There doesn't need to be any sort of runtime benefit to make it a useful exercise.
- electroly 5y agoI hadn't quite caught that this was replacing a SunBlade 2500. I get it now -- he bought this board specifically to work on big endian support, and was already doing that work on the SunBlade. I had misunderstood this to be someone getting a board for some other purpose and just choosing to run in big endian mode for fun.