Re: performance comparison of ARM 266 MHz vs i386 800 MHz
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:29:48AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> So the answer really becomes, that if your software does no floating
> point calculations, then the arm will be quite a fast chip, and
> otherwise it will be very slow. I would not be surprised if a 266mhz
> arm is at least close to the performance of an 800mhz via eden when
> doing integer calculations.
Sorry to intervene but I am a bit surprised.
As far as I remember, ARM has no 32x32->32 unsigned multiply and no
32x32->64 multiply. Am I wrong ?
If ARM has a 32x32->64 integer multiply, I could write an assembly
multiprecision support for PARI/GP.
Cheers, [Please CC me]
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