On Jan 8, 2012, at 9:14 AM, katja wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Pierre Massat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's also the Dream Plug >> (http://www.plugcomputer.org/development-kits/dreamplug.html), which has a >> faster (though totally unknown to me) CPU. > > According to the processor documentation it is ARMv5TE-compliant, and > there's also a Dream Plug with ARMv5 mentioned on: > > http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware > > It is not the newest generation of ARM, so it would not be comparable > to a recent tablet. > > This page discusses performance comparisons of ARM versus x86: > > http://vanshardware.com/2010/08/mirror-the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/ > > ARM seems to perform slow with floating point, and Pd is all floating > point. An Atom based computer might be better for Pd. I have no > experience with ARM, but of Atom-based netbooks I know (also from > experience) that Pd performs reasonably well under Debian. Roughly > three times slower than a laptop, I would say.
All of the big smartphones and tablets use ARM chips that have floating point units that are decent. There is also the pd-anywhere integer-only port of Pd. It is usable on 200Mhz integer-only ARMs. .hc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them, or perish. -William Carlos Williams _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
