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	daperl	2011-01-29 , 18:44
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Originally Posted by shadowjk

There's no NEON, and it has half the registers. First MeeGo versions actually didn't work on it, but now they've begun compiling meego to be able to run on it. It probably makes it a bit slower on omap3 and omap4 though

I don't have any links, but NVIDIA basically said they opted out of NEON for space reasons with the first two Tegra phases. And from further reading, latency and performance testing between NEON and non-NEON seems to conclude: non-NEON equals crippled under certain conditions.

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