How's its float performance? Older ARMs have very bad/non-existant floating point support.
i would wager that floating-point is not its forté, but rather than give you an opinion, what would be got a good float-performance benchmark that i can run on it to give you some real figures? is there a preferred stdout-style C app i can run that'll give us some real figures?
also keep in mind its dual-processor; the second processor is 100% free to run code as fast as it can, while processor-1 is doing the linux thing .. so while floating-point performance may be abysmal, fixed-point math on the second CPU may just be fine ..
more details about the specs here: http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Docs_and_Papers
If its not up to scract it's not the end of the world, it just narrows the choices a bit.
i wouldn't put this in the class of 'high-performance hardware', but more 'hardware worth squeezing every last bit of performance out of it'.
Does it have enough umph to run JACK? That would make it an interesting platform for audio hacking.
i don't think JACK would be wise on this thing, though i could be wrong .. its really designed to be a 'single-app running at a time' platform, and so far supports SDL/SDL_mixer, though you can do raw hardware i/o to the codec of course, and .. well .. there is the matter of USB-Audio Gadget drivers, which would provide a path to higher-power DAW upstream ..
-- ; Jay Vaughan
