On Jan 8, 2012, at 9:14 AM, katja wrote:
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Pierre Massat pimassat@gmail.com wrote:
There's also the Dream Plug (http://www.plugcomputer.org/development-kits/dreamplug.html), which has a faster (though totally unknown to me) CPU.
According to the processor documentation it is ARMv5TE-compliant, and there's also a Dream Plug with ARMv5 mentioned on:
http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware
It is not the newest generation of ARM, so it would not be comparable to a recent tablet.
This page discusses performance comparisons of ARM versus x86:
http://vanshardware.com/2010/08/mirror-the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/
ARM seems to perform slow with floating point, and Pd is all floating point. An Atom based computer might be better for Pd. I have no experience with ARM, but of Atom-based netbooks I know (also from experience) that Pd performs reasonably well under Debian. Roughly three times slower than a laptop, I would say.
All of the big smartphones and tablets use ARM chips that have floating point units that are decent. There is also the pd-anywhere integer-only port of Pd. It is usable on 200Mhz integer-only ARMs.
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