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Re:LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU by agumonkey on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:17PM (#11613966)
Lessen the burden from the relatively weak ARM core used as CPU. The VPU seems very potent.
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Re:LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU by ciroduran on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:59PM (#11614408)
The RPi can handle playing back video (1080p) very well. Raspbian comes with omxplayer which uses the GPU to play video.
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Re:LLVM Backend for the VideoCore4, Raspberry Pi 2 VPU by agumonkey on Monday May 02, 2016 @04:53PM (#11615505)
I know, I meant for other tasks (people mentioned DSP like logic).
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