Subj : Re: enigma on M68K linux
To   : Oli
From : tenser
Date : Fri Jan 20 2023 07:30 am

On 19 Jan 2023 at 04:56p, Oli pondered and said...
 
 Ol>  >> Unfortunately nodejs will most likely never run on m68k.
 Ol> 
 Ol>  v> It was just a excuse to see if it would... If I could program, then it
 Ol>  v> would have been something to do... Alas, I'm not...
 Ol> 
 Ol> I'm glad you did. I was not aware that nodejs / V8 is so damn picky
 Ol> about the CPU. I thought it would compile on any Linux / BSD. But
 Ol> unfortunately that is the way the web devs / companies are heading for
 Ol> quite some time. Creating libraries and web sites / apps on monstrous
 Ol> JavaScript frameworks. Wasting so much resources that you need very
 Ol> performant JS engines and faster computers. They don't see why you want
 Ol> to run nodejs on legacy devices, especially not on very very old retro
 Ol> computers like an Amiga ;).

It's probably worthwhile understanding _why_ this is as it is.
In particular, v8 implements a JIT that compiles JavaScript to
native machine code; in that sense, yeah, you need a supported
CPU architecture.

I don't think this precludes someone sufficiently motivated
from implementing it for 68k.  It probably won't perform _well_
(at least, not on anything prior to ColdFire or an overclocked
68060 if you can find one), but it will probably _work_.

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