Re: recommend a netbook for Debian deployment?
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:32:01PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Mikhail Ramendik <mr@ramendik.ru> wrote:
>>
>> >> yeees, that CPU Card runs debian. first thing i installed when i got it :)
>> >
>> > Cool. But I guess the A10 GPU (Mali400) is pretty basic compared to
>> > the aforementioned PowerVR?
>>
>> we're using the A20 which is dual-core, but yes it is. part of the
>> issue there is that the moron in charge of MALI at ARM - the one who
>> thinks he's god - doesn't actually know what he's talking about, and
>> hasn't bothered to do any software optimisation of the parts of the
>> MALI libraries that run on the actual ARM cores.
>>
>> luc verbeghen did a _really_ simple memory-management system in
>> limadriver and got a *whopping* 30% performance increase *above* what
>> MALI can do on the exact same hardware. and that's *without* having
>> done any other special kinds of optimisations.
>
> I am not sure who luc verbeghen is, or where he found this 30% increase.
ha ha :) thanks for correcting my ever-fault memory mr verhaegen :)
l.
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