Crusoe's performance on linux?

Samphan Raruenrom
2003-06-23T03:43:46Z

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Could you a test just for me? Take vanilla 2.4.21 and then
> make oldconfig; make dep; time make bzImage
> That's basically what I want to know how long will take, since
> it's one of the most common time consuming tasks the thing will
> have to handle.
Done! Here're the results:-

Desktop - Pentium III 1 G Hz 754 MB -> 10.x min.
Tablet PC - Crusoe TM5800 1 GHz 731 MB -> 17.x min.

From freshdiagnos benchmack, the TPC has about 2x faster RAM.
I use tmpfs for the whole process so disk speed didn't count.
Both test run without X or any foreground process using
2.4.21-ac1 and RedHat kernel.

What do you think?
Shouldn't TM5800 with 4-wide VLIW engine and 64 registers,
working on a single task, run as fast as a Pentium III?
Why it take 70% longer for such small process (make+gcc+as)!
There must be something wrong.