Thread: [ANNOUNCE] CSSU-thumb thread - stable Thumb2 on N900
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reinob is offline reinob
2012-10-26 , 07:10
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#969
Originally Posted by bennypr0fane View Post
Is there any confirmation other than "feels faster" that this an improvement in performance?
At least in theory it should be faster. ARM code runs indeed faster than Thumb2. But thumb2-compiled code is smaller.

I submit that any decrease in execution speed with thumb2 is drowned by the decrease in loading time (NAND/eMMC/MMC -> RAM) due to the slow throughput of the flash memory in the N900, which is its biggest bottleneck.

Even though I haven't tried thumb2 (yet), I'm convinced that everything should run faster, or, better said, *load* (start-up) faster.
 

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