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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Privilege Levels Below User Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 22:33:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <v4l4qv$3lqic$3@dont-email.me> References: <v4ifbt$32kuq$8@dont-email.me> <memo.20240615121647.7992C@jgd.cix.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:33:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bd45dcd0b5a25b060647b4de82583354"; logging-data="3861068"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/sIcpz0MZMyYrnZNzOsFGZ" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MRbR+fh+eM7lk2b9iIdlwbkP/6E= Bytes: 1651 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.