If you like it, found it intriguing, think it's useful, or you think I'm a complete idiot.
Tweetsudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev python libcurl4-openssl-dev
tar -xvf node-v0.8.x.tar.gz
cd node-0.8.x
vi deps/v8/build/common.gypi
Edit the variables object right at the top and add:
'armv7%':'1',
'arm_neon%':'1',vi deps/v8/SConstruct
Make sure the code on line 82 & 83 matches this:
'all': {
'CCFLAGS': ['$DIALECTFLAGS', '$WARNINGFLAGS', '-march=armv7'],
'CXXFLAGS': ['-fno-rtti', '-fno-exceptions', '-march=armv7'],
},./configure --dest-cpu=arm
make
make install
I ran the included NodeJS benchmarks using make bench.
The specs for the Pandaboard ES are:
CPU pretty much ran at 100% but memory stayed around ~3.7%. Overall the results were pretty decent.
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Server Software:
Server Hostname: 127.0.0.1
Server Port: 8000
Document Path: /buffer/1024
Document Length: 1024 bytes
Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 10.002 seconds
Complete requests: 8964
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 10281708 bytes
HTML transferred: 9179136 bytes
Requests per second: 896.21 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 111.581 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 1.116 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 1003.86 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 1 3.7 0 39
Processing: 11 110 61.1 107 297
Waiting: 9 110 61.1 106 297
Total: 12 111 61.2 107 298
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 107
66% 139
75% 156
80% 166
90% 192
95% 218
98% 242
99% 257
100% 298 (longest request)This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Server Software:
Server Hostname: 127.0.0.1
Server Port: 8000
Document Path: /buffer/102400
Document Length: 102400 bytes
Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 10.000 seconds
Complete requests: 5767
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 591261675 bytes
HTML transferred: 590540800 bytes
Requests per second: 576.69 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 173.402 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 1.734 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 57739.69 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 1 8.7 0 102
Processing: 8 169 93.2 166 406
Waiting: 4 167 92.9 163 405
Total: 8 171 93.4 167 407
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 167
66% 219
75% 247
80% 263
90% 295
95% 318
98% 350
99% 367
100% 407 (longest request)This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Server Software:
Server Hostname: 127.0.0.1
Server Port: 8000
Document Path: /bytes/1024
Document Length: 1024 bytes
Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 10.000 seconds
Complete requests: 9028
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 10355116 bytes
HTML transferred: 9244672 bytes
Requests per second: 902.77 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 110.770 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 1.108 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 1011.21 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 1 4.2 0 53
Processing: 1 109 58.8 107 314
Waiting: 1 108 58.7 106 313
Total: 4 109 59.2 107 314
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 107
66% 138
75% 155
80% 165
90% 188
95% 207
98% 230
99% 249
100% 314 (longest request)This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Server Software:
Server Hostname: 127.0.0.1
Server Port: 8000
Document Path: /bytes/102400
Document Length: 102400 bytes
Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 10.002 seconds
Complete requests: 771
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 79046775 bytes
HTML transferred: 78950400 bytes
Requests per second: 77.09 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 1297.237 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 12.972 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 7718.10 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 5 13.2 0 48
Processing: 23 1172 706.4 1113 2577
Waiting: 22 1171 706.2 1113 2576
Total: 23 1177 703.8 1126 2578
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 1122
66% 1489
75% 1740
80% 1892
90% 2210
95% 2381
98% 2482
99% 2531
100% 2578 (longest request)With a little bit of trial and error and these resources I got it work. This does not guarantee it will work for you and I take no responsibility if you mess up your panda board. Also same process goes for getting to run on ArchLinux Arm for Pandaboard.