Can list members treat each other with greater civility? The list has been quite nice lately.
Noah On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <m...@endeavour.zapto.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Lawrence E. Bakst <m...@iridescent.org> > wrote: >> >> At 4:31 PM -0500 1/28/11, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: >> >The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... >> > >> > >> >No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. >> > >> >-- vs >> >> 1. I should have said: >> >> "The Tegra 2 is probably one of the best ARM based SOCs out there ..." >> >> 2. It lacks NEON because it doesn't need that ISA. The chip has an >> integrated GPU which does the same thing a different way. > > 1. Oh, huh, the Tegra 2 is available now? I wasn't aware, sorry about that. > Looks like it is A9-based, yay. > > 2. If your task is amenable to the integrated GPU, sure; but its not fair to > say that NEON and GPUs (or the OMAP's DSP) do the same thing. > > -- vs >
