[Arm-netbook] RedSleeve - New ARM Linux Distro

[Gordan Bobic]

On 12/04/2012 22:27, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> mån 2012-03-26 klockan 09:38 +0100 skrev Gordan Bobic:
>
>> Have you actually looked at what the realistic performance advantage is
>> on something like a Tegra2 between running armv5tel and armv7hl for a
>> typical desktop workload?
>
> I have not tried them in desktop setup, but in batch compile performance
> difference there is a very noticeable difference between Tegra2 running
> armv5tel or Tegra2 running armv7hl for any larger compile job even when
> running the same kernel.

Can you put a number on that over a few different tasks, e.g. a 100 
loops of bzip2 of a 100MB file generated from /dev/random going to 
/dev/null and 100 iterations of compiling something small in tmpfs?

"Very noticeable" isn't very scientific. :)

Gordan