Is the Prime the fastest calculator ever made?

[Claudio L.]

(12-20-2017 04:52 PM)smp Wrote:  Claudio, you mentioned twice that the Numworks calculator has a Cortex M4 processor in it. When I look at the Numworks site, their specs say it has an 100 MHz ARM v7 processor.

Is ARM v7 the same as Cortex M4, or am I confused?

If the Numworks is faster, I am looking for the fastest handheld platform for my 8080 simulator.

Thanks,
smp

ARMv7 is the architecture version, while Cortex M4 is the CPU name. Many different CPUs can implement the same architecture ARMv7, but they differ in other things they include in the dice. Look at the black diagram on the right here to get an idea of what's included in a Cortex M4 processor, the ARMv7 core is one of many things.

EDIT: I don't know if the Numworks will be faster doing emulation. If you do numeric calculations using the FPU it is, but an emulator I don't know if it will be faster.