[Arm-netbook] About, the rk processor.

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 4x faster than the fastest processor on that "x200 libreboot device I am
>> I highly doubt it would be nearly that fast (at least for "general
>> computing").
> Intel is on about the same ballpark as the big arm tablet chips but they
> can't shrink it any further. They got this low simply from node shrinks,

I think we're talking about different things: the X200 is a laptop from
a several years ago, so it's unaffected by Intel's current performance:
the kinds of processors it can take has been frozen for many years
already (and they're much more power hungry than the RK3288, AFAIK).


        Stefan "owner of a X201s which runs about 8 times faster than
                a Cubietruck when compiling Elisp code.
                I would expect the RK3288 to be maybe 4 times faster
                than the A20 on this benchmark (twice the number of
                cores and twice higher frequency), so to get to «4x
                faster» it would need another factor 8 on this
                particular test, which seems highly unlikely"