Re: [boost] Boost on ARM using NEON

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost on ARM using NEON
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-29 05:45:44

On 29/05/13 10:59, David Bellot wrote:

> Are you testing your code on a specific machine or a virtual one ?
> What's about things like Raspberry Pi ? I'd like to see benchmark on
> this little things. Maybe you can start benchmarking ublas on a tiny
> machine like that and/or an Android device and see how gcc is able to
> generate auto-vectorized code for this machine. Check the assembly
> code to see if Neon instructions have been correctly generated.

The Raspberry Pi does not support NEON.

Also bear in mind that when it comes to benchmarking, difference is 
quite significant between Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15.