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Re:Chrome Won by bzbarsky on Friday May 26, 2017 @12:55PM (#14425469)
> Chrome works on every platform.

Except anything MIPS-based. Or Power. Or in fact anything that isn't x86 or ARM.

And it's not just a matter of compiling it for those platforms. There's a bunch of architecture-specific porting that would have to be done (e.g. you _have_ to implement a V8 backend; there is no platform-independent way to run V8 just with a C++ compiler).

Re:Chrome Won by gibfahn on Friday May 26, 2017 @06:42PM (#14427726)
(Thanks partly to Node) V8 works on Power (LE & BE, Linux & AIX), I'm pretty sure it works on MIPS (https://github.com/v8/v8/tree/master/src/mips64), and you can even get in on z/OS (https://developer.ibm.com/node/sdk/ztp/)!

Not sure about Chromium support on those platforms, but V8 support is pretty impressive.

Re:Chrome Won by bzbarsky on Saturday May 27, 2017 @02:59AM (#14429217)
I stand corrected. V8 had no support for anything other than x86 (32 and 64 bit) and ARM last I had looked at it!