Hi, Recently we have been looking at how to squeeze more performance out of our toolchain for building Firefox on Android. Mike Hommey integrated GCC 4.6 into the android NDK and has been testing performance (with mixed results http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2011-08/msg00096.html). I like how Linaro is doing regular arm benchmarking, ie https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Android/AndroidToolchainBenchmarking/2011-0... . Would you be interested in adding a Firefox-based benchmark? As a large application it is a good testbed for LTO, FDO and other aggressive optimizations.
We are also looking at setting a developer-friendly android ROM with oprofile, perf, systemtap, gdb, debug symbols, etc. It might even be beneficial for us to use newer kernels as we exlore options like kernel-assisted ld.so relocations, etc. That seems to similar to what Linaro provides in the evaluation ROMS. Is there any chance of Linaro providing developer-friendly "evaluation" ROMs for retail phones like the Nexus S?
Thanks, Taras