21 Nov
2012
21 Nov
'12
4:08 a.m.
On 21/11/12 14:46, Toby Corkindale wrote:
It seems that the ARMv6 doesn't actually have any divide instruction in the CPU, whereas some ARMv7 variations do get it.
So it's possible my naive benchmark was picking on a specific weakness of the raspberry pi's CPU.
Nah, actually it seems the particular variant of the ARMv7 in the beaglebone doesn't have a divide operator either. (Or if it does, gcc isn't compiling to use it)