Software is bloat , else they could not copyright it .
P4 has over 500 opcodes in its instruction set . Intel did this to help ppl copyright .
ARM is reduced instruction set , has maybe 20 ?
P4 runs its clock at very hi speed , but the CPU throughput is not directly related .
ARM at 400Mhz is equal to a 2ghz Pentium .
The ARM has 14 index registers to point to your code P4 has 2 . STONE AGE !!
Image processing software will be much shorter in the future , and easier , faster .
Im building ARM 9 ( game box GP2X , Linux 2.4 ) It runs at 1 watt , 2ghz Pentium takes 20 watts . Hook a DigiMate+HDD and a clever keyboard and i have a pocket PC !
GP2X has 1024 by 768 , 24bit color , 2D accelerator chip . USB "UHP" 1.1 , UDP 2.0 ( NetChip2272 I.C.
At first , ill stay with Linux in 2MB PSRAM , so it will boot in 0.2 seconds . Later , write a Forth .
I think software will obsolete , very soon , and all will be rewritten to ARM .
No one likes to change horses , midstream , but ARM will take over all computing .