On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > > On 24 Jul 2014, at 12:17, Gustavo Frederico Temple Pedrosa < > gustavo.pedr...@eldorado.org.br> wrote: > > > I and my team are involved in changes for architecture-specific > implementations, > > specifically PowerPC64, in favor of expand the support and performance > in the PHP. > > How widely used is the PowerPC64 architecture? Is it really worth adding > yet another set of inline asm that will have to be updated if we changed > these operators? >
For the first question - you'll probably will see an increase due to the OpenPower and IBM's POWER8. Kaplan
