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Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Koen Kooi<k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>  wrote:

>> [2] On cortex-a8 the VFP isn't pipelined, so double precision math is twice
>> as slow compared to ARM11 cores, the NEON unit is pipelined, but can only do
>> single-precision. '
>
> should get better with cortex-a9

Yes, cortex-a9 dumps the vpf-lite and has a proper pipelined version, 
but sadly there isn't any cortex-a9 silicon on the market yet.

regards,

Koen