What are the chances of a phone based developer image

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:32:51PM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 03:08:53PM -0700, Taras Glek wrote:
> > >You should definitely be trying to build using the Linaro 4.5 and 4.6
> > >compiler branches; they are pretty much guaranteed to give you better
> > >performance, and if they don't, we're on the hook to fix it quickly! All
> > >the patches go upstream, so there is no risk of you being stuck on a
> > >fork -- it just makes everything you need available right now.
> > Mike, can you give these a try?
> 
> Also, the 4.5 branch is likely to perform better for a while; once 4.6 
> has caught up 4.5 goes into stable mode.
> 
> If you are on a platform with NEON (i.e. not a Tegra2) experimenting
> with on -O3 and -mfpu=neon might get some interesting results as that
> enables the NEON auto-vectorizing Ira has been working on; given it's
> Mozilla, you might also get an ICE though ;-) Tell us how it goes.

That's unfortunately not something that can work for us, except if we
start distributing a different android build for NEON and non-NEON.

Mike