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On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 22:33:03 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:16 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
> 
> > There are a _lot_ of libraries and other components that go into a
> > modern web browser, many of which will never have been built on
> > POWER. The JITer for the Javascript engine, and the Web Assembly
> > translator seem to be among them, and they need to make use of the
> > native instruction set. That's not a bug fix, that's a significant
> > implementation task.  
> 
> But those are not required for correctness, only for efficiency. The 
> original question, as I understood it, was to get the code running on
> the specified architecture, not necessarily to get it running at top
> speed.

Do you use video codecs in FF for correctness or only for efficiency?
;-)