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What's fascinating in that article is to see that a Raspberry Pi 3 has about 10% of the floating-point processing power of a Cray C90... Cue the many forum que
by ElBarto 8y ago
What's fascinating in that article is to see that a Raspberry Pi 3 has about 10% of the floating-point processing power of a Cray C90...
Cue the many forum questions: "I'm planning to use a Raspberry Pi to control a <simple-ish device>. Will it be powerful enough?"
- geezerjay 8y agoTruth be told, due to today's wealth of computational resources, some very popular software stacks were not designed to be lean or efficient.
- adrianN 8y agoThe real question is "Will it be powerful enough even though I use a Desktop operating system and a software stack designed for programmer comfort rather than efficiency to control <simple-ish device>".