Re: performance comparison of ARM 266 MHz vs i386 800 MHz
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:15:06PM +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> We need to port existing linux unserlevel soft from i386 to ARM.
> Our tasks are lot of string searchign like lot of strstr().
> I need to understand performance ratio factor for such tasks
> between ARM 266 MHz and Intel 800 MHz(via), very roughly.
There is other issues than Mhz to consider, such as memory
bandwidth and cache sizes. Both which Arm cores usually have
much less than their x86 cores.
> I don't have access to the target ARM box so I cannot make direct
> experiments and measurements.
You can get a 266Mhz arm system, the Linksys NSLU2 [1], from your
nearest IT store with ~75eur.
[1] http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/
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