Re: New Raspberry Pi image

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Jan 25, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Stephan wrote:

> 2013/1/25 Nick Hudson <skrll%netbsd.org@localhost>:
>> On 01/25/13 16:59, Stephan wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Nick,
>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>>> the image from January 10th boots faster and feels more responsive.
>>> For example, when I scp a file from localhost to localhost, the
>>> throughput is 1.0 - 1.2 MB/s with that image. In contrast, with the
>>> image from yesterday throughput is only 750 kb/s.
>> 
>> 
>> The latest one uses LOCKDEBUG which does slow things down quite a lot.
> 
> That makes things clear. As for performance in general, what known
> issues are there yet? One thing I know is hard-float, which apparently
> requires changes to libc (also to the CPU support in the kernel?).

Hardfloat requires an entire changes to a new ABI.  It's a very big change.