[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Add ARM mode compilation for JNI files

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> writes:

> On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:23:27PM -0400, Rafaël Carré wrote :
>> Le 01/05/2012 06:51, satish MR a écrit :
>> > Hi,
>> > This patch covers Support for ARM mode compilation of JNI files instead of
>> > THUMB mode (selected by default now).
>> 
>> What is wrong with thumb ?
>
> It is slower than ARM, IIRC.

Thumb-1 is certainly slower.  Thumb-2 is usually about the same speed.
All Cortex-Ax CPUs support Thumb-2.  ARM1136/76 do not.

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