Subj : enigma on M68K linux
To   : tenser
From : Oli
Date : Thu Jan 19 2023 07:34 pm

tenser wrote (2023-01-20):

 t> The problem with V8 is that it's
 t> jitting to native object code; so unless you've got a backend
 t> for that, it won't run on your platform.

 t> I'm a bit surprised there isn't a fallback to either a
 t> portable p-code or just straight-up interpreter.

Java had the same problem until they added Zero (-assembler) JVM and the Shark JIT based on LLVM in 2009/2010. Unfortunately (and of course) Shark was removed in 2017.

Go (go, the one written in Go) also does not support many old CPUs, but there is also gccgo and gollvm.


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