Re: [NTLK] A few thoughts on Einstein (long)

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Date: Tue Sep 14 2004 - 04:01:58 PDT

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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:29:44 -0700, Sonya Hipper
<sonyalynn_at_earthlink.net> wrote:

> > Another option is JIT. JIT will mean a small performance hit, but much
> > better portability. The performance hit won't be significant. And the
> > thing could run on non ARM-based PDAs.
>
> Better and better, although I have to ask. As I've been researching on
> the Web, I've gotten a bit confused. Is XScale a subset or derivative
> or descendant of ARM? If so, is it ARM compatible?

Intel bought StrongARM from Digital and developed XScale as a
successor. Xscale can run StrongARM code.

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