On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:29:48AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > So the answer really becomes, that if your software does no floating > point calculations, then the arm will be quite a fast chip, and > otherwise it will be very slow. I would not be surprised if a 266mhz > arm is at least close to the performance of an 800mhz via eden when > doing integer calculations.
Sorry to intervene but I am a bit surprised. As far as I remember, ARM has no 32x32->32 unsigned multiply and no 32x32->64 multiply. Am I wrong ? If ARM has a 32x32->64 integer multiply, I could write an assembly multiprecision support for PARI/GP. Cheers, [Please CC me] -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
