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Fabry is offline Fabry
2010-12-23 , 00:43
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#46
Originally Posted by xenkof View Post
Froyo is slow on Arm11 architectures (HTC Wildfire, etc) NOT on Arm Cortex A8 or similar (Hummingbird, Snapdragon etc).
The N900 CPU at 600 MHz is a lot faster than any Arm11 CPU (like HTC wildfire, SE x10 mini, HTC legend, Hero) no matter what MHz their CPU runs at.
It's like comparing Pentium (the original) with a Core2.
Please not exagerate.

Cortex A8 is faster than Arm11 but not always many times faster.

ARM declares it as near to 40-60% faster than Arm11 at same clock (so a Cortex A8 at 600MHz is like an Arm11 at 1.0GHz).

In some areas Cortex A8 can be even more faster than Arm11 if software uses widely some specific functions (NEON isa, double speed cache, double width bus, ...etc) that Cortex A8 has and Arm11 hasn't (or Arm11 has less efficient one)
Last edited by Fabry; 2010-12-23 at 00:52.