What software titles have been optimized for the Xscale Processor?

[John Hung]

Is anyone keeping a list of the software titles that have been optimized for the Xscale processor?

I recall seeing a title somewhere that advertised the fact, but as usual I did not think I was going to need to retain the info at the time. I 'killed' my good o'l 3835, and now I have a 3955.

[vincentsiaw]

got the same case with you man, killed my 3835 (the back light suck) and buy 3955 but don't know what software is optimized for the xscale, if any....

[daninnj]

One is PocketTV Enterprise Edition (http://www.mpegtv.com/wince/pockettv/), but you need to pay $50 for that. The "Classic" edition is free, but not optimized.

DanInNJ

[John Hung]

I just checked out the pocket tv web site. It only mentioned optimization for Toshiba e740. Hmmm..does that mean even if I purchase the enterprise version I may not get the benefit on my iPAQ 3955 since the site states the optimization is specifically for Toshiba e740?

[ThomasC22]

PocketTV Enterprise is optimized for Xscale processors (http://www.mpegtv.com/wince/pockettv/faq.html) look on the left hand side of the page quoted.

As for other apps, I don't know of anyone I just wanted to remind everyone that "optimized for Arm5" also means that it is optimized for xscale processors (but not completely, xscale is a superset of arm5)

[dcharles18]

Before you plunck down $50 give the regular version a shot. It works just fine on my 3900.

[topps]

For most applications, the lack of a speed increase when moving from SA to Xscale CPU has been due to the memory bus speed restriction. i.e. the CPU is not the bottleneck.

Because of this, I doubt if you'll find that many applications benefit from such optimisation.

dt

[Kati Compton]

Thus far it doesn't seem as though speed is a benefit of XScale, but that perhaps power is.