raspberry Pi

[Kenneth Brody]

On 5/7/2013 4:32 PM, Henry Arredondo wrote:
> Too bad, :(  it was a great project. Imagine , filepro in a small box for small business. Oh well, I'll switch back to linux and do some Mysql :P

I haven't done any benchmarks, but I have a feeling that filePro takes a 
smaller memory footprint than MySQL.  (Assuming you can get an ARM binary 
for MySQL.)

If you're willing to pay for the port, I'm sure you can work something out 
with TPTB.

> From: Doug Luurs [mailto:doug at borisch.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 2:35 PM
> To: Henry Arredondo
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: RE: raspberry Pi
>
> Henry .. I've got a pi too, and Ken is correct.  The pi runs a ARM processor which has a RISC type instruction set.
> The x86 is completely different, so running any x86 code "As-is" would not be possible.  So even if you are running
> a FreeBSD O/S, it's been compiled to use that RISC instruction set.  Ken / fpTech would need to completely recompile
> fP with the ARM instruction set, and even then, the 512k memory limit on a pi would make running fP painful if at
> all possible.
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Kenneth Brody