Just done a little test on all my platforms, by running this python script which generates prime numbers . Code: #!/usr/bin/python import sys import math def is_prime(num): for j in range(2,int(math.sqrt(num)+1)): if (num % j) == 0: return False return True def main(argv): if (len(sys.argv) != 3): sys.exit('Usage: prime_numbers3.py <lowest_bound> <upper_bound>') low = int(sys.argv[1]) high = int(sys.argv[2]) if (low == 2): print 2, if (low % 2 == 0): low += 1 for i in range(low,high,2): if is_prime(i): print i, if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:]) run with :- time ./prime.py 0 1000000 > /dev/null All running Debian 7 and very little load , No gui desktop running. ( just headless ) all standard images downloaded from the makers web sites , no extra clocking from the default image. eg the udoo was the udoo_quad_debian_wheezy_armhf_v1.0beta image . Cubitruck and udoo running on sata and the raspberry on a class 10 sd card. Code: Cubitruck 1 = minutes 29 seconds to 1 minutes 32 seconds ... run 3 times Raspberry Pi = 3 minutes 45 seconds to 4 minutes 9 seconds .. run 3 times Udoo = 49.566 seconds to 49.701 seconds .. run 3 times And that using a single core on all platforms