Platform Support #4

KyleCardoza commented 2025年02月11日 02:52:53 +01:00

Obviously, we don't want to limit ourselves to one specific platform. That would be painful. However, we also shouldn't try to support everything. We should set a minimum expected performance level, and work to make that as performant as it can be. There are lots of ways to do that. Motif itself is already quite lean by modern standards -- there's a lot of room to grow its functionality without costing too much CPU.

What do you think a good minimum spec would be?

Obviously, we don't want to limit ourselves to one specific platform. That would be painful. However, we also shouldn't try to support everything. We should set a minimum expected performance level, and work to make that as performant as it can be. There are lots of ways to do that. Motif itself is already quite lean by modern standards -- there's a lot of room to grow its functionality without costing too much CPU. What do you think a good minimum spec would be?

thomholwerda commented 2025年02月11日 11:39:55 +01:00

Focusing on x86-64 seems like the most reasonable thing to do - I doubt 32bit x86 is still interesting to anyone, and other, non-x86 platforms introduce a whole slew of issues I don't think a brand new project should be taking on. If and once more people are on board, looking beyond x86-64 becomes a more realistic endeavour.

Focusing on x86-64 seems like the most reasonable thing to do - I doubt 32bit x86 is still interesting to anyone, and other, non-x86 platforms introduce a whole slew of issues I don't think a brand new project should be taking on. If and once more people are on board, looking beyond x86-64 becomes a more realistic endeavour.