[ECOS] ecos == slow ??

[Rosimildo da Silva]

From: "Stijn Symons" <stijn.symons@acunia.com>
To: "ecos-discuss" <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:39 AM
Subject: [ECOS] ecos == slow ??


> Hi all,
>
> Is eCos slow or our are we missing something here? Were porting a Java
> Virtual Machine to eCos, but it's much slower than running it on
> embedded linux in it's original code.  The VM starts in about 5 seconds
> on Linux where the ecos port only starts after about 5 minutes (no joke,
> we timed it).
>
> We ported it by mapping al the primitives that the VM uses (mutexes,
> threads, queue, the whole bunch) to ecos, so there aren't many layers in
> it.
>

Is eCos and Linux running on the *same* hardware ?

You cannot compare Linux running on a P4 2GHz with  ecos
running on a ARM 200MHz. :-)

Rosimildo.


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