On 25 March 2011 18:33, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:34:07PM +0000, Henry Vermaak wrote: >> >> The Cortex A8 (armv7) is 2 generations newer than the Kirkwood processor >> on open-rd (armv5). It's got almost twice the DMIPS/MHz. I'd be very >> surprised if it's slower. > > Interesting, do you have an URL to those benchmarks?
Google can get you quite far. ARM9 is usually quoted to have 1.1 DMIPS/MHz: http://hubpages.com/hub/The-ARM-family Wikipedia says that Cortex A8 is "up to 2 DMIPS/Mhz". Of course, if you have a floating point intensive app, you can get much bigger gains. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus