> Hi everybody!
> This is for everybody who has a BeagleBoard (any version) and is
> willing to run a small benchmark for me.
> It is phrot,a program for performing primality tests on big numbers
> and relies heavily on double-precision floating point performance.
Double-precision float on the Cortex-A8 is slow.
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Best regards,
Everett
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>> Double-precision float on the Cortex-A8 is slow.
>
> OK,that is something good to know.
> Still interested how it compares to a 1.4 GHZ athlon xp with this
> benchmark.
The athlon will be at least 5x faster.
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> On 29 Jan., 20:11, Måns Rullgård <m...@mansr.com> wrote:
>> Tom Turbo <ilikelinustorva...@gmail.com> writes:
>> >> Double-precision float on the Cortex-A8 is slow.
>>
>> > OK,that is something good to know.
>> > Still interested how it compares to a 1.4 GHZ athlon xp with this
>> > benchmark.
>>
>> The athlon will be at least 5x faster.
>>
> How much faster do you think a 1 GHZ Cortex A9(one core) would be in
> this regard?
The A9 should be comparable to the Athlon.
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