Slow konqe on a PXA250

[Mayuresh Kathe]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Simon Hausmann wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:28:18AM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> > Hm, does Konq/e create new threads often? I found a post over at the
> > armlinux-kernel list that identified a problem in the Linux process creation
> > code for the PXA...
>
> konq/e does not make use of threads (clone(2) and friends) , it
> still creates child processes for network IO though. I'd be
> surprised though if the creation of the processes is what gives the
> bad performance you experience. (I mean... you'd notice that in the
> whole system I guess)

Hey, Simon, wouldn't it more efficient to have threads instead of separate
processes? (Qt/e threads)

> I'm clueless about the PXA cpus. Are they particularly bad or good
> at integer or fpu arithmetic? Do they lack an fpu at all like the
> arm modules?

PXA are an extended version of StrongARM, I guess with added support for
USB and a couple of other things within the chip (which was outside
earlier)
Just adding my own 4 bits, is that a nibble ;^)

~Mayuresh