Comment Panaboard - Tests not done with Hard Float (Score 1) 77
A lot of the tests that were done would have benefited from having Hard Float. Ubuntu ARM port does not have Hard Float. They should have used the Debian HardFloat port to get more accurate performance metrics of what the hardware can do.
I'm not arguing over semantics or fractions of percentages - Hard Float would have given an easy 20% increase in performance for some tests! For example here's an engineer from Genesi showing off the Debain Hard-Float work a few months back... 300% increase in some places?
Would you benchmark cars giving all the others high-octane fuel except one?
Please let it Soft-float fucking die already. It's horrible.