> With actual RPi hardware still being 6 to 8 weeks out, would a Freescale > i.MX535 Quick Start board allow such benchmarking? I presume an armel > install of Debian and compiling certain packages with VFP2 optimizations > would be pretty straight forward. Is armhf in such a state that it would be > easy to bring up on the board as well?
Running benchmarks on different hardware is a complete waste of time. The Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 have very different performance characteristics to the arm11. The A8 FPU is particularly wierd, with unusually high penalties for certain operations (and others that are effectively free). Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
