Re: Help making a decision on re-basing Slackware ARM from armv4 to armv5

[Stuart Winter <m-lists@biscuit.org.uk>]

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> Of course, that is the real answer...  you could compare a Debian and
> a Ubuntu userland, which are build from almost identical sourves using
> the same mechanisms and compiler. I'd be very interested to know your
> measured results.
>
> My feeling is that the speed gain would be in the 5-10% range at best.
> For a general-purpose operating system you need to evaluate whether
> that's worth the effort and exclusion of low-end machines.


Thanks for the detailed response, Martin - that's been very helpful.

Cheers
s.