From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <2c95dd590ea0f02d58b3e10c2b3d7b54@ladd.quanstro.net> From: Venkatesh Srinivas Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 06:09:32 -0500 Message-ID: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0023547c8febd71a56049afa388d Subject: Re: [9fans] Cute plan9/inferno client? Topicbox-Message-UUID: a3c6d900-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --0023547c8febd71a56049afa388d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Lawrence E. Bakst wrote: > At 4:31 PM -0500 1/28/11, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > >The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there... > > > > > >No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON. > > > >-- vs > > 1. I should have said: > > "The Tegra 2 is probably one of the best ARM based SOCs out there ..." > > 2. It lacks NEON because it doesn't need that ISA. The chip has an > integrated GPU which does the same thing a different way. > 1. Oh, huh, the Tegra 2 is available now? I wasn't aware, sorry about that. Looks like it is A9-based, yay. 2. If your task is amenable to the integrated GPU, sure; but its not fair to say that NEON and GPUs (or the OMAP's DSP) do the same thing. -- vs --0023547c8febd71a56049afa388d Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Lawrence E. Bak= st <ml@iridescent= .org> wrote:
At 4:31 PM -0500 1/28/11, Venkatesh Srini= vas wrote:
>The Tegra is probably one of the best ARM chips out there...
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>No it isn't; the Tegra lacks NEON.
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>-- vs

1. I should have said:

=C2=A0"The Tegra 2 is probably one of the best ARM based SOCs out ther= e ..."

2. It lacks NEON because it doesn't need that ISA. The chip has an inte= grated GPU which does the same thing a different way.

1. Oh, huh, the Tegra 2 is available now= ? I wasn't aware, sorry about that. Looks like it is A9-based, yay.
2. If your task is amenable to the integrated GPU, sure; but its not fa= ir to say that NEON and GPUs (or the OMAP's DSP) do the same thing.
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