Just out of curiosity, have anyone that is using armel done any real life performance comparisons against ?
The FFTW people ran their benchmark on a 233 MHz armel slab here, obtaining 22.5 faster performance than old Debian arm on 200MHz. Of course, that's pure FP, soft float in both cases though of different kinds. You're welcome to try them on the kind of tasks you are interested in; they're net-accessible. Mail me for an account. I'd be curious to hear the results. M