[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Request: Python and Flash benchmarks

[From: Rajesh Basu]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 08:19 am, Ken Rimey wrote:
> On 11 Aug 2005, at 15:49, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > If pystone uses floatingpoint math the low results could be subscribed
> > by linux using hardfloat (raising an exception in the kernel every FP
> > operation) and symbian handling it more gently. I'm guessing here
> > since
> > I'm no expert.
>
> After a quick glance at the code, I believe pystone
> does not use floating point arithmetic.

Yes, I can confirm that.  It is just a port of the old dhrystone.

> We don't have a 770 yet, so there's not much I can
> do right now to clarify what is going on.

Well, the second set of tests give more consistent results.  And if the first 
test results cannot be reproduced, well, no need to worry about it!  Maybe 
the test was inadvertently run in parallel with other CPU hogging 
processes...

Thanks for sharing the results!  

-- 
Rajesh Basu
cozybit Inc.