Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson

Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2021-10-19 21:26:53 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> As with the HPPA, a potential compromise is to spin up some newer
>> BSD-ish system on it. I agree that OSX 10.4 is uninteresting as a
>> software platform, but I'd like to keep 32-bit PPC represented in
>> the farm.

> I assume the reason 32-bit PPC is interesting is that it's commonly run big
> endian?

Aside from bit width and endianness, I believe it's a somewhat smaller
instruction set than the newer CPUs.

> I wonder when it'll be faster to run 32bit ppc via qemu than natively :)

I think qemu would have a ways to go for that. More to the point,
I've found that its emulation is not as precise as one might wish...

regards, tom lane