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That depends what you mean by "speeds." I used an ARM3-based desktop machine for a while 15 years ago. Personally I think it's a meaningless comparison, but the
by regularfry 16y ago
That depends what you mean by "speeds." I used an ARM3-based desktop machine for a while 15 years ago. Personally I think it's a meaningless comparison, but there you go.
- masklinn 16y ago> That depends what you mean by "speeds." Same as everybody else, the ratio between an amount of stuff S and the time T it takes to execute a set of operations P on it > I used an ARM3-based desktop machine for a while 15 years ago. So? > Personally I think it's a meaningless comparison, but there you go. It's not so much meaningless as irrelevant. I interpreted "ARM chiops are soon at desktop speeds" to mean "ARM speeds are soon at [processing] speeds corresponding to x86 desktop machines at equivalent prices" which definitely isn't the case, not by a long shot. Soon at desktop frequencies yes (the A15 is advertised at up to 2.5GHz while retail desktop CPUs have been stuck under the 4GHz barrier for more than 5 years), performance per watt definitely (ARM has blown x86 away forever there) but actual, raw computational speed not really.
- regularfry 16y ago> > I used an ARM3-based desktop machine for a while 15 years ago. > So? So the idea of there being a "desktop speed" which ARM fails to satisfy is wrong. There has always been an ARM that can be used to perform "desktop"-type tasks.