> > Hi! > > What's the reason why ppc-linux and s390-linux targetted GCC > requires 64-bit HWI these days? > If it is a native compiler, this means using long long in a huge part > of the compiler and therefore slower compile times and bigger memory > consumption.
powerpc-linux supports -mpowerpc64 (or at least will once the kernel is fixed). I think you should do timings and show mememory uage because I and others have fixed almost all of these issues. Thanks, Andrew Pinski