Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of current ARM cores


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 21:20, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

Comparison of current ARM cores

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It's a subset of Comparison of ARMv7-A cores, thus no reason to exist. --Sbmeirow (talk)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:09, 31 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:09, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

- There is ARM11 in the table, which is not ARMv7-A. Perhaps the better way out would be to reorganize the article into a Comparison of classic ARM cores instead. --4th-otaku (talk) 04:12, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

- ARM11 is only one column out of the table, so it's not a big loss. People should be expanding the ORIGINAL article List of ARM cores instead of creating new ones. I rarely see anyone touch it. I think it could even be argued to merge all of these back into it. I vote to kill this article, then worry about expanding legacy stuff at some point when someone wants to spend a bunch of time to add new columns or sections to List of ARM cores. • Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 06:47, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 07:10, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

- Vote to DELETE the article. No change of opinion. "Comparison of current ARM cores" is same as "Comparison of ARMv7-A cores" except for ARM11 info, also ARM11 isn't considered current. • Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 20:29, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

- As an industrial user of ARM products, I find this article extremely useful and view it as an asset unique from List of ARM cores. In making future product architecture decisions, having ongoing access to this article is valuable to me. I would vote NOT to delete this article. Tlofthouse (talk) 19:01, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Unless User:Sbmeirow missed something, the only differences between Comparison of current ARM cores and Comparison of ARMv7-A cores are 1) the first of those articles includes ARM11 and 2) Comparison of current ARM cores has the cores as columns and the characteristics as rows while Comparison of ARMv7-A cores has the cores as rows and the characteristics as columns. Given that, is Comparison of current ARM cores any more useful than Comparison of ARMv7-A cores and, if so, why? Guy Harris (talk) 22:22, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * seems to be the only one against. I wander if people are not up-to-date on ARM11/ARMv6 maybe getting hard too find soon, with the ARMv7 Raspberry Pi 2 out, and like to change their mind. An article for ARMv8 is clear cut, and an article on ARMv7 but "Current" is a moving target.. with ARMv6 probably on the way out. Raspberry Pi is I think the last holdout. ARMv6 is in my old smartphone.. but do they make them anymore? [Or even feature phones with?] What about microcontrollers that are not ARMv7? Firefox (OS) added and then dropped ARMv6 support.. Pre-ARMv6 (or ARMv6 that is still compatible, but not ARMv7) RISC OS have a little problem.. [I'm not too familiar with the ARMv6 microcontroller situation.] comp.arch (talk) 00:11, 10 February 2015 (UTC)


 * And there's always Comparison of ARM cores, which has ARM11 for those who need it. Unless somebody comes up with a compelling reason why Comparison of current ARM cores is "an asset unique from", for example, Comparison of ARM cores and/or Comparison of ARMv7-A cores+Comparison of ARMv8-A cores, I'd say "nuke it". Guy Harris (talk) 02:54, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

- some points:


 * 1) I think tables with characteristics as columns and items being compared as rows, like Comparison of ARMv7-A cores and Comparison of ARMv8-A cores, are better than tables with characteristics as rows and items being compared as columns, such as Comparison of current ARM cores.  The former is the style used by most of the tables I've seen, and scales better as more items are added (which, in general, happens more often than characteristics being added).  So, if Comparison of current ARM cores is to be kept, it should be transposed.
 * 2) If Comparison of current ARM cores is to be kept, and if nobody's still fabricating ARM11 cores and ARM isn't still licensing them, either ARM11 should be removed, in which case the table would presumably now be 100% redundant with Comparison of ARMv7-A cores and it would not be any more useful than that article, so the article should just be deleted, or it should be renamed to "Comparison of ARM cores". Guy Harris (talk) 22:17, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

- and to add some more fun to the discussion, there's also a Comparison of ARM cores page! This sounds like a product of the Department of Redundancy Department; what core comparison pages are actually useful here? Is "current" vs. "historic" sufficiently useful that there needs to be a page solely for current cores, and, if so, should there be a page solely for historical cores and no page for both, or should there be (at least) two pages with duplicate information on current cores? Are the differences between different flavors of the architecture sufficiently useful that there should be pages comparing cores for particular architectures? If so, then does there need to be a page including cores for all architectures? Guy Harris (talk) 22:28, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * yep, too darn many ARM list articles, thus is why we need to kill this article and discuss elsewhere what to do with this big mess! •  Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 23:07, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

- I'd rather kill this article, then START a new effort to determine a future direction in another talk section (NOT HERE). Subjects that need to be discussed: How do we want to handle 32-bit vs 64-bit cores, should we merge everything? Should we create another article that compares just the legacy 32-bit cores? Should we rename the ARMv7-A and ARMv8A to (32-bit ARM) and (64-bit ARM), then put all the legacy and current cores in the 32-bit article? We need to get more people involved in that discusion! • Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 22:58, 8 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete: As pointed out above, there are already too many list-style articles covering pretty much the same thing, and not a too lengthy thing. At the same time, "current ARM cores" isn't a good choice for an article title, as each "current" requires an "as of", what would be pointless.  Thinking aloud about further steps, I'd vote for merging everything into the Comparison of ARM cores article. &mdash; Dsimic (talk | contribs) 09:08, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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