Hello,

I also suffer from the same problem: Running the V8 JS Engine on PowerPC architecture. Actually, it's not the Chrome browser I'm interested in, it's the Node.js which I should be running on a Mac mini G4. (Just in case you may not know, Node.js incorporates the V8 as the JS engine.)

I estimate that the makers of NodeJS have chosen V8 because it was the fastest JS engine out there. But it could become the fastest by being designed exlusively for the x86, x64 and ARM ISA's.

On the other hand, the possibilities offered by the LLVM look promising, even more promising than V8, because it's ISA-independent.

I wonder why the coders of the V8 haven't chosen LLVM or any other stack as the JIT-compiler? (LLVM was already known by 2005) Did they not know there were millions of PowerPC based computer owners out there? These questions just linger on.

Anyway, the most basic question for me now is "how to start integrating LLVM or any other stack into the V8"

Thanks.

did you tried Rhino+OpenJDK Shark VM with LLVM as runtime JIT ???

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No, I haven't really tried it.

But I estimate that, even if I manage to successfully run Rhino + OpenJDK + shark VM with LLVM on my PowerPC, I may have to modify the codes of Node.js to work with Rhino, instead of V8.

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll give it a try.

About porting Google's V8 JS engine to the PPC platform, I've found a project at https://github.com/ic/v8-powerpc