Loom PPC64LE Port

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/02/2022 08:04, Reingruber, Richard wrote:
> Hi Ron, Alan,
>
> I've started porting loom to ppc64le. Currently a simple hello world
> succeeds.
>
>    $ uname -m
>    ppc64le
>    $ jshell -s --enable-preview -J-Xint
>    -> Thread.startVirtualThread(() -> System.out.println("Hi!"));
>    Thread.startVirtualThread(() -> System.out.println("Hi!"));
>    Hi!
>
> I'll keep the code in the ppc_port branch of my loom fork which I intend to rebase
> as needed. Also I will frequently squash commits.
>
Thanks for the mail. It is a good time to get other ports started and 
good to hear that you've got "hello world" working in the interpreter. 
When the times comes then you can decide if you want to bring the ppc64 
port into the loom repo or integrate it into the main line later.

-Alan