Hi Jason.  There's a couple of different things going on here.  The
Toolchain Working Group, which I am a part of, is working on both 4.4
and 4.5 based versions of GCC.  We want the Linaro version to be 'the
toolchain for ARM', as in the one that people first go to when
thinking about an ARM project.

The 4.4 version is being used by Ubuntu as their default compiler.
The 4.5 version is where the new work and performance improvements
will go.  Both are focused on the Cortex-A series and have Thumb2,
NEON, and Cortex-A specific optimisations.  We will also be  be
supplying a standard cross-compiler builds that can be installed on
your Ubuntu based host machine.

Regarding benchmarks, I'd recommend you wait a week for our next
release and give it a try on your actual code.  We're very interested
in any feedback and any performance regressions compared to earlier
versions.

Hope that helps,

-- Michael

The best benchmark to try
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Liu Hui-R64343 <r64...@freescale.com> wrote:
> Hi, Linaoer,
>
> I'm  one SW engineer named Jason Liu from Freescale. I noticed that
> there are some discussion about the arm-cross-toolchain. I want to know
> the following:
>
> What cross-tool chain will Linaro use? What's the version number?
> Will it enable ARM-V7 support?
> Will it enalbe NEON support?
> What's the improvement for the memcpy function? What I'm asking this
> question due to that we meet the peformance drop when we upgrade gcc
> version from 4.1.2 to higher version.
>
> Thanks.
>
>  BR,
> Jason
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Re: [Linaro-dev] Maverick cross toolchain
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>> 2010.07.20
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>> updated gcc-4.4 to 4.4.4-7ubuntu1 and fixed dependencies of
>> some packages updated gcc-4.5 to 4.5.0-8ubuntu1 and fixed
>> dependencies of some packages updated binutils to
>> 2.20.51.20100710-1ubuntu2 and reverted sysroot change updated
>> ARM libraries to latest versions
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