shared memory problem on armel

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:33:54PM +0100, martinwguy wrote:
> There is a way: for Debian armhf to re-target on v6 in a future release.
> That would break none of the existing installations and make Debian
> more Universal as per its manifesto. With hindsight it would have been
> better for Debian armhf to have targetted on the lowest arch version
> that almost always had a VFP unit, but that forward path is easy.

thumb2 support saves memory and cache especially.  That I believe was
the main reason to pick v7 over v6.

> It seems a net win compared to a few % extra speed in FPU-intensive
> apps on v7+ CPUs.

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Len Sorensen