[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] testing pango with 770

[From: Riku Voipio]

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 16:47, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> On 12/21/05, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One might think "why don't this guy optimize it?" Answer is simple:
> > it's easier to pango developers to know where to optimize, they know
> > what to optimize and they know the code. So a week or so in feature
> > freeze dedicated to "speeding up" will give more results than me
> > spending a whole semester looking at it.

> And as I pointed out, this has been happening. Wether or not the
> performance improvements apply for the 770 (which has no FP etc) is
> another thing though.

Another issue that hits 770 bad is the lack of RAM and cpu cache. since each 
and every new version these libraries is bigger than the old ones, you are 
simply bound to get more cache misses.