Thread: Wheezy, Debian 7, aka Maemo Reloaded
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shawnjefferson is offline shawnjefferson
2014-04-25 , 23:43
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
If that's the case then I've been misunderstanding Thumb all this time. My understanding was that Thumb instructions are slightly less efficient than ARM. The real benefit of Thumb is that the compiled binaries are smaller and thus take less memory space and require less swapping.
I have read that this is the case, thumb instructions are smaller but maybe less efficient, but in reality, all the thumb applications I've tried including ones I've compiled myself either perform the same, or slighter better AND are smaller.

The better/same performance may be the fact we're using a newer compiler though and not an aspect of thumb itself.

Anyway, the bottom line is, that I can see no reason not to have all applications thumb compiled and I've been using thumb on my device since FMG released it basically.
 

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