Comment Re:I've read /everything/ on that site... (Score 1) 323
From what you say I don't think that you have read everything at the sight. Some of your "facts" came from other places.
The small web appliance software was small because it was for an embedded deviced and it was to its advantage that it had about on tenth of the memory usage of next nearest compeditor's software with similar features.
We did benchmark on a number of real computing problems and did compare output to RISC, DSP and desktop chips like Pentium. Although we didn't claim to target the full range of applications that all architectures target. You have identified some that we didn't target and that are not appropriate and you have outlined inappropriate approaches for software.
Pick some other scalable 60,000 MIP
Jeff Fox
UltraTechnology