This seems like a plausible amount of improvement for Cortex-A8 tuning on a non-floating-point-intensive package and library stack.
Did you get a chance to try interoperable non-vfp code on ARM9/XScale?
(i.e., -march=armv5 -mtune=cortex-a8... I'm assuming -msoft-float is present by default).
It would be worth seeing whether the Cortex-A8 tuning has any appreciable impact on performance on these platforms.
This seems like a plausible amount of improvement for Cortex-A8 tuning on a non-floating- point-intensive package and library stack.
Did you get a chance to try interoperable non-vfp code on ARM9/XScale?
(i.e., -march=armv5 -mtune=cortex-a8... I'm assuming -msoft-float is present by default).
It would be worth seeing whether the Cortex-A8 tuning has any appreciable impact on performance on these platforms.