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Dec 01 21:08:15 <debio264> does Gentoo get a noticeable speed improvement by using the native instruction set of the Sheevaplug rather than a backwards compatible instruction set?
Dec 01 21:10:22 <roxfan> sheeva is armv5, what is gentoo compiled for?
Dec 01 21:12:54 <debio264> well, I assume that Gentoo is directly targeting ARMv5tel because their claim to fame is that your entire system is compiled locally and optimized as much as possible for your hardware
Dec 01 21:12:58 <debio264> the Debian armel port I'm using looks to be ARMv4t
Dec 01 21:13:22 <debio264> I'm just wondering if there's a significant speedup
Dec 01 21:18:08 <roxfan> i doubt you'll see a big speedup
Dec 01 21:20:34 <debio264> roxfan: I pretty much doubt it too
Dec 01 21:20:45 <debio264> but I'm trying to be optimistic XD
Dec 01 21:21:57 <roxfan> there's a couple of dsp instructions which might improve video or audio algos, but not really much new for application code
Dec 01 21:22:44 <roxfan> there's also pld which might improve memory operations
Dec 02 02:17:23 <rektide> SSSAAAAMMMMBBBAAAA
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