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Llorean:
Why not optimize Rockboy. I really don't like the idea of "Abuse the hardware, rather than doing the actual work needed to get things running well."
Those of you who want faster Rockboy are more than welcome to contribute patches optimizing things, but it's unlikely Rockbox will ever intentionally abuse hardware just so people don't have to work on things.
zajacattack:
Well, why not overclock? Wouldn't that give an overall performance boost?
safetydan:
The specifications that we have for these chips say that their maximum clock is 80 MHz. Do you really want to go outside that? Apart from heat and battery life issues there's also the danger of breaking the CPU in some way.
zajacattack:
Oh, so the risks end up outweighing the benefits?
Llorean:
In case the key word "abuse" didn't hand it to you on a silver platter, overclocking is a good way to cause permanent damage to the hardware.
Overclocking is not a solution, it's a way to avoid solving the problem properly. Any performance gains would be offset by an increased chance of permanent hardware failure.
Why not optimize code? Wouldn't that give performance boosts?
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