Currently, Fedora only supports armv5tel hardwarecodes. With the introduction release of armv7 architecture, (with beagleboardXM) Fedora-ARM is planning to upgrade pressed on deciding of upgrading its Fedora Universeto use armv7 codes. While it seems logical, re-compiling the whole Fedora package is a strenuous task; therefore before . Instead of deciding to recompilethe whole universe, Fedora-ARM needs to make sure can test if optimizing certain system binaries to use armv7 architecture provides significant performance difference against the currently used armv5tel codes.

This project aims for that sole purpose. By running a benchmark and compiler optimizationson system binaries, Fedora-ARM can contrast both technologies and use the results to decide if it's really worth to recompile the whole Fedora Universe to use armv7 architectureoptimized codes.