Thread: Maemo 6 / Harmattan on N900?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-02-10 , 18:57
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Originally Posted by SubCore View Post
they would have to maintain two branches of code for the lower system stuff, which they won't do.
Which makes me curious as to what extent there are actual -code optimizations- for the A8, versus optimizations to GCC.

sure you can just recompile most of the userspace apps, but optimizations on the system level require a lot more effort.
Considering the whole of Maemo exists in userspace, I'm still trying to see what's so wildly different about Snapdragon's ARM branch from the Cortex A8 line.