+++ Konstantinos Margaritis [2010-07-16 16:04 +0300]: > On Friday 16 July 2010 15:36:26 Wookey wrote: > > Just to save others a bit of time: > > > > The summary from that lot is that hardfp is about 4% faster on average > > (between 0 and 11% on various tests). So definitely faster for > > real-world stuff, but 4% won't justify a new port from Debian's POV. > > 4% won't, but 30% might?
Yes. Exactly. > Or what about the huge gain in povray? That was dramatic. I guess it leads on to the question of how many more really dramatic speedups there are in software people actually use (or would if it was faster :-) I guess we'll find out soon enough. > > It would be interesting to test on some other hardware too, as A8 is > > expected to be the hardware where this makes the most difference, right? > > I have no other hardware nearby,only A8 -well I have remote access to a quad- > core A9, but I haven't yet tried hardfp on it yet as it's not mine to play :) Yes. I was meaning for other people to try stuff as this is such an easy benchmark to run if you've got a browser built. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
