<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>The 32-bit Arm architecture is very different from the 64-bit architecture and isn’t a good starting point.</div><div><br></div><div>The better question is why PPC64 instead of x86-64? The main reason is that, like Arm64, PPC64 has 32 registers vs. 16 for x86-64.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 31, 2023, at 5:53 AM, Bruce O'Neel <bruce.oneel@pckswarms.ch> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Hi,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I made this a separate message to not pollute the other thread.<br></div><div><br></div><div>More for curiosity rather than anything else, but, why is the PPC64 port the best to start from? I would have naively guessed the Arm32 port.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.<br></div><div><br></div><div>bruce <br></div><div><br></div>
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