[Lazarus] FPC and Lazarus on ARM

[Henry Vermaak]

On 25 March 2011 18:33, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 03:34:07PM +0000, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>> The Cortex A8 (armv7) is 2 generations newer than the Kirkwood processor
>> on open-rd (armv5).  It's got almost twice the DMIPS/MHz.  I'd be very
>> surprised if it's slower.
>
> Interesting, do you have an URL to those benchmarks?

Google can get you quite far.  ARM9 is usually quoted to have 1.1 DMIPS/MHz:

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-ARM-family

Wikipedia says that Cortex A8 is "up to 2 DMIPS/Mhz".  Of course, if
you have a floating point intensive app, you can get much bigger
gains.

Henry