Re: brief olpc call notes

Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>> From what I have gathered from JG's presentation at Guadec, this is not
>> so much due to the HW, but because the HW is being throttled rather
>> significantly to reduce power consumption.
>
> Not really. We're throttling a 400 MHz processor down to 366 MHz, but
> it's not those 34 MHz that kill performance; it's 16K of L1 with no L2.
>

Thanks for clarifying that, I must have misunderstood Jim's talk in this
respect. I wonder how much compiled C/C++ will be affected relative to
Python code by this?

Tomas
Received on Thu Dec 7 17:24:27 2006