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18:09:22
beach
ebrasca: Very quickly (I am off for today). First x86-64, just because that's what I have. I hope to be able to acquire a RISC-V machine in the not-too-far future, so that would be an obvious one. I think for the other architectures, I will rely on other people to write and support backends.
18:30:39
ebrasca
pjb: IBM did also open they architecture, here one https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
3:49:56
beach
The fact that RISC-V is "open" is not the only reason for my interest for it. I believe, as pjb said, that "it's the future", in that there seems to be a lot of momentum for it. Also it's a fresh architecture, created from scratch from decades of experience with existing architectures, so it is highly orthogonal.
3:57:40
beach
I believe ebrasca is the owner of (or at least has access to) Talos II or something like that. It would then be fine with me if ebrasca were to create a suitable backend for SICL that will make it run on such systems.
3:58:38
beach
But I personally don't have the ambition (nor the time, energy, etc) to support a bunch of backends by myself.
4:09:28
beach
What I will do, though, is make sure that there is a protocol for backends, so that new ones can be created without modifications to the main code base.