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The Nexus One has a '600MHz' FPU on its Qualcomm ARM core. I doubt if <br>that will translate into 600 MFlops as there will be performance degredation <br>and any app has to be quite specifically coded to actually use the FPU, a bit<br>like you have to code specifically for MMX and SSE on Intel architectures,<br>the compiler does not do this automatically.<br><br>If the code does not optimise onto the architecture you end up with soft floats<br>and consequent performanace limitations. I wouldn't imagine softfloats being<br>be a big issue for Jack itself but may be for any code that wanted to do any DSP<br>on the audio distributed by Jack.<br><br>You also need to consider that having limited FPU performance may imply <br>having multiple apps running DSP code is out of the question, which implies <br>Jack (as an audio distribution server) is of limited use.<br><br>Android is an interesting platform though, not least because it does have <br>reasonable horsepower on the Nexus and it is multitasking. Why the iPhone <br>dropped that capability beats a lot of people.<br><br>How much are you looking to do on it?<br><br>Kind regards, nick.<br><br>"we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”.<br>Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer<br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:28:47 +0100<br>> From: jeremy@autostatic.com<br>> To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> Subject: Re: [LAU] Linux audio droid?<br>> <br>> Ken Restivo wrote:<br>> > Just curious: do any of the Android-capable phones have an FPU? Can any of them run JACK?<br>> > <br>> > I've got a Linux audio instrument that fits in my backpack; the next challenge would be to see if I can get on that fits in my pocket.<br>> > <br>> > -ken<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > Linux-audio-user mailing list<br>> > Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user<br>> <br>> Just had my first cup of coffee... Sorry Ken.<br>> <br>> Hello Ken,<br>> <br>> The Motorola Droid (or Milestone) and its little brother the Droid<br>> Devour have FPU's. You can also run Android on the Nokia N900 which has<br>> an FPU also. And then there's the Nexus One.<br>> I'm sharing your curiosity so I'll keep an eye on this thread.<br>> <br>> Best,<br>> <br>> Jeremy<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Linux-audio-user mailing list<br>> Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org<br>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user<br> <br /><hr />Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. <a href='https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969' target='_new'>Get it now.</a></body>
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