Hi,
Recently we have been looking at how to squeeze more performance out of
our toolchain for building Firefox on Android. Mike Hommey integrated
GCC 4.6 into the android NDK and has been testing performance (with
mixed results http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-08/msg00096.html). I like
how Linaro is doing regular arm benchmarking, ie
https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidToolchainBenchmarking/2011-07
. Would you be interested in adding a Firefox-based benchmark? As a
large application it is a good testbed for LTO, FDO and other aggressive
optimizations.
We are also looking at setting a developer-friendly android ROM with
oprofile, perf, systemtap, gdb, debug symbols, etc. It might even be
beneficial for us to use newer kernels as we exlore options like
kernel-assisted ld.so relocations, etc. That seems to similar to what
Linaro provides in the evaluation ROMS. Is there any chance of Linaro
providing developer-friendly "evaluation" ROMs for retail phones like
the Nexus S?
Thanks,
Taras
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