How's its float performance? Older ARMs have very
bad/non-existant floating
point support.
i would wager that floating-point is not its forté, but rather than
give you an opinion, what would be got a good float-performance
benchmark that i can run on it to give you some real figures? is
there a preferred stdout-style C app i can run that'll give us some
real figures?
also keep in mind its dual-processor; the second processor is 100%
free to run code as fast as it can, while processor-1 is doing the
linux thing .. so while floating-point performance may be abysmal,
fixed-point math on the second CPU may just be fine ..
more details about the specs here:
http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Docs_and_Papers
If its not up to scract it's not the end of the
world, it just narrows the
choices a bit.
i wouldn't put this in the class of 'high-performance hardware', but
more 'hardware worth squeezing every last bit of performance out of
it'.
Does it have enough umph to run JACK? That would make
it an interesting
platform for audio hacking.
i don't think JACK would be wise on this thing, though i could be
wrong .. its really designed to be a 'single-app running at a time'
platform, and so far supports SDL/SDL_mixer, though you can do raw
hardware i/o to the codec of course, and .. well .. there is the
matter of USB-Audio Gadget drivers, which would provide a path to
higher-power DAW upstream ..
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Jay Vaughan