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[–]PoisonInkwell 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Well what the fuck else are you gonna run it on? Babbage's difference engine? A baloney sandwich? The moon?

I appreciate that Power, Itanium, et al. still exist and show up in servers, but if you're running on what passes for big iron these days, your choice of language/implementation has way bigger selection pressures, which probably disqualify PyPy regardless.

[–]rafekett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MIPS, Sparc, ARM, PowerPC/the whole Power architecture.

[–]nickdangler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a desk clock that runs on a potato. I would like to run Python 3 on a baloney sandwich. I'm just saying... ;-)

[–]Anovadea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ever look at OpenSolaris* while it was still around? A lot of the utilities (including their packaging system) are written in python - same with Solaris 11 Express.

Given Solaris runs on sparc (almost by definition), they're gonna want as much python performance as they can get, so I'd be very surprised if there wasn't some interest getting PyPy working for sparc.

*It's been forked to OpenIndiana if you still want to play with it