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We do not support as400 pase. Contributions are welcome.
Processor: The port supports only 64-bit PPC machines. It recognizes Power chips 5 through 7 and generates code optimized for these processors. So far, it lacks an instruction scheduler targeted to Power 6, which is an in-order issueing processor.
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The port is derived from a VM targeted towards server applications. Therefore it focuses on maximizing peak performance. Thus, it utilizes the high end C2 optimizing compiler of HotSpot. As interpreter performance is less relevant for server applications, we use the C++ interpreter.
The port does not support the template interpreter or the C1 compiler. Contributions are welcome.
Supported HotSpot features
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The C2 compiler uses implicit null checks, which requires some adaptions to shared code as on AIX the zero page is not protected.
The port does not support tiered compilation.
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