5 ms·
A lot of applications used on ARM may still be crippled due to lack of NEON assembly code. Many number-crunching applications, like compression, have lots of M
by DarkShikari 15y ago
A lot of applications used on ARM may still be crippled due to lack of NEON assembly code. Many number-crunching applications, like compression, have lots of MMX/SSE SIMD on x86, but no NEON, and will likely be slow on ARM until they do.
- nextparadigms 15y agoWhat do you mean? All dual core ARM chips and above (except Tegra 2) have NEON. Also all 1 Ghz and above Snapdragon chips.
- newman314 15y agoMost smartphones now are armv7 and have been for the last 2 years or so. I don't see an issue with a baseline being set for armv7+vfp+neon being a minimum processor feature set going forward for mobile devices (phones & tablets)