7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
7:18 p.m.
On Jun 7, 2013, at 19:46, "Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On 7 Jun 2013, at 19:28, "Dave McGuire"
<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
I could be thinking of the more bizarre ARM systems though. Or a later version of the
architecture.
Even the recent ones are fine, at least on the small end (the Cortex-M
series). There are plenty of ARM7 and ARM9 series processors still
around, and those are still great architectures. What I'm not as fond
of is their beefier applications processors, like the ones you find in
phones. They're actually fine for phones, but for something like the
CPU for a router, give me a MIPS or a PowerPC any day. It's market
segment sprawl, as far as I'm concerned.
- Dave
Sounds
about right. ARM is not currently being used because it's
"better"...it's being used because it's "cheap.
Hrm. As someone who develops ARM hardware and software every day, I can
tell you it's *pretty damn good*. I have zero complaints about it. (and
coming from me, them's big words!)