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To: combjelly who wrote (48911)	7/24/2001 11:31:22 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Respond to of 275872

The dragonball takes on average of 7-10 clock cycles per instruction vs 1 for the StrongARM. Admittedly these are RISC vs CISC instructions. e-www.motorola.com At 33 MHz the dragonball is 5.4 MIPS (I was using the 16 MHz example in the current Palm Vx). Even so, 40x the MIPS is the difference. Even taking RISC vs CISC into account, we are still talking a big difference.

To: combjelly who wrote (48911)	7/25/2001 8:51:18 AM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Combjelly, Re: I would guess that 2-3 times greater than current Palms is the best you can expect. Someone is developing a PalmOS emulator for Pocket PC. There's an early (non-public) beta version available and apparently it already runs at 80% the speed with an iPAQ (206 MHz ARM) without any optimizations yet. So if even a hobby programmer can pull this off, PALM should do much better. They would be stupid IMO not to go to ARM ASAP. It's probably a good idea anyway to build a completely new OS for ARM processors which feature some sort of "compatibility mode" for old PalmOS applications (somewhat similar to what e.g. MacOS X does). Andreas