Lpc2000

ARM vs Thumb for Intel Strong ARM
This paper says that mixing the ARM and Thumb minimizes the code size 
and performance penalty.

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/gupta/research/Publications/Comp/L14-
krishnaswamy.pdf

The average performance hit in Thumb mode is about 20%.
One of the slides in this presentation compares various EEMBC 
benchmarks.

http://www.jp.arm.com/kk/arm_forum2003/ppt/architecture%
20_extensions.ppt

--- In lpc2100@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Johnson" <mpj@r...> wrote:
> I did a simple comparison using the test program for our fast 
floating
> point maths library and found that GCC generates THUMB code 30% 
smaller
> than ARM code but takes 40% longer to execute.
> 
> Regards
> Michael