Thread: ARM vs X86?
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coffeedrinker is offline coffeedrinker
2007-11-25 , 06:41
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#9
Originally Posted by bokubob View Post
For most applications, going from x86 to ARM is just a matter of recompiling. Since you're going to use the maemo SDK anyway, who cares about the target processor?

-Jonathan
Try compiling a few different things from source and you will find that unless they are simple or small projects, there will be some issues you will have to deal with because of ARM. For example, try compiling Firefox in the maemo SDK. Many things need tweaking or changing because ARM is not the top priority for developers and it takes longer for bugs to get fixed.

Many apps will compile just fine. But x86 does have the advantage over ARM for *some* projects where you choose to build from source yourself.