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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: TS-7800 Floating Point Performance
From: "delapluie" <>
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:54:18 -0000
all right, I just discovered this thread-

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/9683

which seems to indicate that the 7800 ships with an OABI kernel.  But
when I try readelf -h /bin/ls on my two day old TS-7800, I get this-

ELF Header:
...
  Flags:                             0x2, has entry point, GNU EABI

Which sure suggests it is EABI to me.  Is it possible that I will get
better performance than the native compiler if I can get one of the
EABI cross compilers to work?

-mike

--- In  "delapluie" <> wrote:
>
> 
> I recently got a TS-7800, in the hope that because of the EABI support
> and the 500 MHz processor, it would perform much better at floating
> point math than the 7260 I was testing before.
> 
> I was unsuccessful in getting the crosstools to work from Ubuntu. 
> When I ftp'd my executable to the 7800, and did a "chmod +x test", I
> keep getting-"-bash: ./test: No such file or directory"  If anyone has
> any thoughts on this problem, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> But I'm really eager to determine if the 7800 can solve my performance
> problem, so I ftp'd my source code over, and compiled it natively on
> the 7800.  No compiler options (do I need any?)
> 
> Strangely, benchmarking 1000 iterations of my algorithm, I got almost
> exactly the same performance as with the 7260- about 54ms per
> iteration.  I expected that even if EABI wasn't doing it's job, I
> would at least get a 2.5 times speed up from the clock rate.  My test
> code reads a line (maybe 100 bytes) from a data file in the NAND flash
> once per iteration; otherwise, I can't think of anything outside the
> processor that takes any time.
> 
> Has anyone else benchmarked floating point on the 7800, and gotten
> better results?  Any idea what I might be doing wrong?  Thanks,
> 
> -Mike
>




 
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