This page describes architectural decisions in the initial HotSpot VM PPC port from 2013. It explains extensions we made to shared code needed for PPC, but which might be also useful for other platforms. Further it gives details of implementations in the PPC part.
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The port does not support tiered compilation, as the C1 compiler is not ported.
Here you find more detailed informations:
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