[Lazarus] FPC and Lazarus on ARM

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:06:47AM +0000, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>> The latter is particularly interesting since it is effectively a desktop
>>> (sata + lots of USB + VGA). I'm planning to install the just new Fedora 13
>>> and need to set up a crosscompile kernel.
>> I've been thinking about getting one of these:
>>
>> http://www.genesi-usa.com/products/efika
>>
>> I need something small and quiet to drive my projector and with the
>> new debian armhf port, the performance could be quite nice, too.
>> Cortex A8 seems like the thing to go for now, with linaro and debian
>> focusing on armv7 + vfp3 mainly.
> 
> 800mhz is a tad slow though.  Very affordable though.
> 
> The Openrd armv5 1.2GHz seems hardly able to run a modern browser. (I had
> some embedded firefox variant on my default openrd install)
> 
> I'm not sure how much FP a browser uses though (due to scaling requirements
> it might actually use FP).

I find that surprising, since I could run Debian's Mozilla on a 32Mb 
Slug /provided/ that I used FluxBox rather than KDE as the window 
manager. There is always a possibility that current browsers use vastly 
more resources than the one with Debian (which isn't exactly famed for 
being bleeding edge)... but there's also the possibility that they've 
regressed to the position they shared with Lazarus a couple of years ago 
of generating far too much X-protocol traffic which made remote 
operation infeasible.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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