[fedora-arm] Fedora 13 ARM Beta2

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Mar 26 2011, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> On 03/26/2011 09:10 PM, Matthew Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> 2. Armv7 / VFP / NEON support to squeeze a bit more performance out
>>> (where appropriate to the h/w).
>>
>> I suspect you'll find that NEON won't make a noticeable difference, at
>> least not until:
>
> I suspect you're right that recompiling the world with NEON is no big
> deal, but simply doing glibc/X/liboil/codecs should be a large win by
> itself.  In those cases there's pre-vectorized code sitting there
> and waiting to be emitted once the right flag's turned on.

cairo and pixman have had some heavy optimisations done for NEON as
well so that should massively improve things like gtk/gnome/mozilla
based apps as well.

Peter