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RE: gEDA-user: uClinux

Also XScales from Intel max out at 800MHz.

As others have said actual performance is more important.  If the DSP
instructions in blackfin help you then I would expect it to be faster
almost regardless of clockspeed.

If not then -given similar cache- then normal ARMs and Blackfins should
be fairly comparable since they're both pipelined, scalar RISC
processors, with similar ISAs.  The Cortex A8 Samuel mentions is
superscalar and can perform 2 instructions per clock quite often.

BTW Although most insns on both at single cycle, multiply is multiple
cycle on both ARM and Blackfin, I think divide is too.  Probably some of
Blackfins DSP is also.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-geda-user@xxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-geda-user@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Samuel A. Falvo II
> Sent: 24 January 2006 07:00
> To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: uClinux
> 
> On 1/23/06, Hal2000 <carzrgr8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > path.  The ARM part max's out at 200MHz, but has some useful
> 
> I believe that Cortex A8 is an ARMv7 core that runs at around 660MHz. 
> I suspect that if you look hard enough, you can find faster ARMs.
> 
> --
> Samuel A. Falvo II
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