On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 12:48:12 -0400
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> You would be moving from a 900MHz quad core (presuming you mean RPi 2
>Model B) to a 1.5GHz quad core (Rpi 3B is 1.2GHz and RPi 3B+ is 1.4GHz).
>Since Raspbian is still built as a unified (common to all models) 32-bit
>OS, the 64-bit cores of the RPi 4 (and RPi 3) may be underutilized --
>especially if one is running computationally heavy jobs. The 2B is running
>60% of the speed of the 4B.
This really surprises (and disappoints) me. The debian base is capable of all
sorts of processor optimisations, and the people doing the Pi have the
advantage of knowing *exactly* what differences there are between models.
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