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how to install on ppc7400 (OS X 10.4) #162

Open ghost opened 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

Has there been any successful versions or builds working on a PowerPC G4 Mac running Mac OS X? If so, where do I find this version and how do I build it, or where can I get binaries? I'll take any version of Node.js.

mhdawson commented 4 years ago

There is no available version for that platform.

andrewlow commented 4 years ago

The core challenge here is that different version of the PowerPC chip implementation have different FPU instructions. This drift in CPU implementation makes the V8 implementation (which is effectively a compiler) problematic.

Javascript really like floating point, like.. a lot.

To fix this - someone needs to crawl through the floating point issues and (conditionally) reimplement those parts to fix the code for that architecture. Easier than supporting a complete new CPU .. but still requires specific skills.