Article: ARM Goes 64-bit
By: Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton.delete@this.gmail.com), November 19, 2012 11:21 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra.delete@this.ntlworld.com) on November 19, 2012 9:31 am wrote:
[snip]
> That certainly helps, but you're still doing it multiple times on targets which may not have a lot of
> resources. What is more efficient - every phone compiling every bit of software you download, or just
> run a highly optimized binary which was compiled once with optimal settings on fast hardware?
For systems that download all software that is not pre-installed, why couldn't the server provide a binary optimized for the particular system? (The application developer might provide a virtual machine binary to the distributor [to minimize costs for the developer and validation costs for the distributor], but the distributor could cache highly optimized translations.)
In theory, such could provide substantial freedom from ISA constraints and perhaps even facilitate microarchitectural optimizations which might be impractical with a single binary. (Fat binaries would seem to be unattractive because of the bandwidth waste.) In theory, performance- (or storage-) intensive features could be enabled when one upgrades one's hardware. It is not clear how the economics of this would work; for a vertically integrated system, the benefit to the distributor of encouraging hardware upgrades and bandwidth/services use might be passed on to the application developer through reduced hosting fees for software with such bonus features or a small payback on upgrade (for some applications, a loss in software upgrade fees might be compensated by marketing advantages of end-user simplicity or an increase in use [if linked to advertising or a pay-per-use service]). (There might even be some place for optimization for typical or critical use, so that the same software might be translated differently for different uses on the same hardware.) If the distributor's compilers improved (e.g., better support of offloading to an accelerator, autovectorization, autoparallelization), subscribing to a distributor could have added value beyond simply tracking licenses and backing up software.
I am curious about what the ideal virtual machine binary representation would be like. I am guessing that such would include much more information that a machine binary would include (to ease validation and optimization for different targets). If the VM was optimized for server-side compilation to system-specific binaries, some characteristics that make interpretation easier might be avoided.
[snip]
> That certainly helps, but you're still doing it multiple times on targets which may not have a lot of
> resources. What is more efficient - every phone compiling every bit of software you download, or just
> run a highly optimized binary which was compiled once with optimal settings on fast hardware?
For systems that download all software that is not pre-installed, why couldn't the server provide a binary optimized for the particular system? (The application developer might provide a virtual machine binary to the distributor [to minimize costs for the developer and validation costs for the distributor], but the distributor could cache highly optimized translations.)
In theory, such could provide substantial freedom from ISA constraints and perhaps even facilitate microarchitectural optimizations which might be impractical with a single binary. (Fat binaries would seem to be unattractive because of the bandwidth waste.) In theory, performance- (or storage-) intensive features could be enabled when one upgrades one's hardware. It is not clear how the economics of this would work; for a vertically integrated system, the benefit to the distributor of encouraging hardware upgrades and bandwidth/services use might be passed on to the application developer through reduced hosting fees for software with such bonus features or a small payback on upgrade (for some applications, a loss in software upgrade fees might be compensated by marketing advantages of end-user simplicity or an increase in use [if linked to advertising or a pay-per-use service]). (There might even be some place for optimization for typical or critical use, so that the same software might be translated differently for different uses on the same hardware.) If the distributor's compilers improved (e.g., better support of offloading to an accelerator, autovectorization, autoparallelization), subscribing to a distributor could have added value beyond simply tracking licenses and backing up software.
I am curious about what the ideal virtual machine binary representation would be like. I am guessing that such would include much more information that a machine binary would include (to ease validation and optimization for different targets). If the VM was optimized for server-side compilation to system-specific binaries, some characteristics that make interpretation easier might be avoided.
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New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | none | 2012/08/14 12:44 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | David Kanter | 2012/08/14 01:04 AM |
MIPS MT-ASE | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/14 09:01 AM |
MONITOR/MWAIT | EduardoS | 2012/08/14 10:08 AM |
MWAIT not specifically MT | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/14 10:36 AM |
MWAIT not specifically MT | EduardoS | 2012/08/15 03:16 PM |
MONITOR/MWAIT | anonymou5 | 2012/08/14 11:07 AM |
MONITOR/MWAIT | EduardoS | 2012/08/15 03:20 PM |
MIPS MT-ASE | rwessel | 2012/08/14 10:14 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | SHK | 2012/08/14 02:01 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 02:37 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/14 03:57 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 04:29 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | none | 2012/08/14 04:44 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 05:28 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 05:32 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/08/14 06:06 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | none | 2012/08/14 05:40 AM |
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New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 06:12 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | none | 2012/08/14 06:25 AM |
Predicated ld/store are useful | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/14 06:48 AM |
Predicated ld/store are useful | none | 2012/08/14 06:56 AM |
Predicated ld/store are useful | anon | 2012/08/14 07:07 AM |
Predicated stores might not be that bad | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/14 07:27 AM |
Predicated stores might not be that bad | David Kanter | 2012/08/15 01:14 AM |
Predicated stores might not be that bad | Michael S | 2012/08/15 11:41 AM |
Predicated stores might not be that bad | R Byron | 2012/08/17 04:09 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 06:54 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | none | 2012/08/14 07:04 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 07:43 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/08/14 06:07 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 06:20 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | none | 2012/08/14 06:29 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anon | 2012/08/14 07:00 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Michael S | 2012/08/14 03:43 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/14 06:53 AM |
OT: Conrad's "Youth" | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/14 07:20 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/08/14 06:04 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | mpx | 2012/08/14 08:59 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Antti-Ville Tuunainen | 2012/08/14 09:16 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | anonymou5 | 2012/08/14 11:03 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | name99 | 2012/11/17 03:31 PM |
Microarchitecting a counter register | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/11/17 07:37 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | bakaneko | 2012/08/14 04:21 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | name99 | 2012/11/17 03:40 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/17 04:52 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Doug S | 2012/11/17 05:48 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | bakaneko | 2012/11/18 05:40 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Wilco | 2012/11/19 07:59 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/19 08:23 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Wilco | 2012/11/19 09:31 AM |
Downloading µarch-specific binaries? | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/11/19 11:21 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/19 11:41 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Wilco | 2012/11/21 07:44 AM |
JIT vs. static compilation (Was: New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit) | VMguy | 2012/11/22 03:21 AM |
JIT vs. static compilation (Was: New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit) | David Kanter | 2012/11/22 12:12 PM |
JIT vs. static compilation (Was: New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit) | Gabriele Svelto | 2012/11/23 03:50 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/23 10:09 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EBFE | 2012/11/26 01:24 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Gabriele Svelto | 2012/11/26 03:33 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EBFE | 2012/11/27 11:17 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Gabriele Svelto | 2012/11/28 02:32 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/26 12:16 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EBFE | 2012/11/28 12:33 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/28 05:53 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Michael S | 2012/11/28 06:15 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/28 07:33 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Michael S | 2012/11/28 09:16 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/28 09:53 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Eugene Nalimov | 2012/11/28 05:58 PM |
Amazing! | EduardoS | 2012/11/28 07:25 PM |
Amazing! (non-italic response) | EduardoS | 2012/11/28 07:25 PM |
Amazing! | EBFE | 2012/11/28 08:20 PM |
Undefined behaviour doubles down | EduardoS | 2012/11/28 09:10 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EBFE | 2012/11/28 07:54 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | EduardoS | 2012/11/28 09:21 PM |
Have you heard of Transmeta? | David Kanter | 2012/11/19 03:47 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | bakaneko | 2012/11/19 09:08 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | David Kanter | 2012/11/19 03:40 PM |
Semantic Dictionary Encoding | Ray | 2012/11/19 10:37 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Rohit | 2012/11/20 04:48 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | David Kanter | 2012/11/20 11:07 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Wilco | 2012/11/21 06:41 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | David Kanter | 2012/11/21 10:12 AM |
A JIT example | Mark Roulo | 2012/11/21 10:30 AM |
A JIT example | Wilco | 2012/11/21 07:04 PM |
A JIT example | rwessel | 2012/11/21 09:05 PM |
A JIT example | Gabriele Svelto | 2012/11/23 03:53 AM |
A JIT example | EduardoS | 2012/11/23 10:13 AM |
A JIT example | Wilco | 2012/11/23 01:41 PM |
A JIT example | EduardoS | 2012/11/23 02:06 PM |
A JIT example | Gabriele Svelto | 2012/11/23 04:09 PM |
A JIT example | Symmetry | 2012/11/26 05:58 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Ray | 2012/11/19 10:27 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | David Kanter | 2012/08/14 09:11 AM |
v7-M is Thumb-only | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/14 06:58 AM |
Minor suggested correction | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/14 08:33 AM |
Minor suggested correction | anon | 2012/08/14 08:57 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Exophase | 2012/08/14 08:33 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | David Kanter | 2012/08/14 09:16 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | jigal | 2012/08/15 01:49 PM |
Correction re ARM and BBC Micro | Paul | 2012/08/14 08:59 PM |
Correction re ARM and BBC Micro | Per Hesselgren | 2012/08/15 03:27 AM |
Memory BW so low | Per Hesselgren | 2012/08/15 03:14 AM |
Memory BW so low | none | 2012/08/15 11:16 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | dado | 2012/08/15 10:25 AM |
Number of GPRs | Kenneth Jonsson | 2012/08/16 02:35 PM |
Number of GPRs | Exophase | 2012/08/16 02:52 PM |
Number of GPRs | Kenneth Jonsson | 2012/08/17 02:41 AM |
Ooops, missing link... | Kenneth Jonsson | 2012/08/17 02:44 AM |
64-bit pointers eat some performance | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/17 06:19 AM |
64-bit pointers eat some performance | bakaneko | 2012/08/17 08:37 AM |
Brute force seems to work | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/17 10:08 AM |
Brute force seems to work | bakaneko | 2012/08/17 11:15 AM |
64-bit pointers eat some performance | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/17 08:46 AM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/17 10:43 AM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/17 12:57 PM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Howard Chu | 2012/08/22 10:17 PM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/23 04:48 AM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Howard Chu | 2012/08/23 06:51 AM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Wilco | 2012/08/17 02:41 PM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/17 04:13 PM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Ricardo B | 2012/08/19 10:44 AM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Howard Chu | 2012/08/22 10:08 PM |
Unified libraries? | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/23 07:49 AM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/23 08:44 AM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Howard Chu | 2012/08/23 05:17 PM |
Pointer compression is atypical | anon | 2012/08/23 08:15 PM |
Pointer compression is atypical | Howard Chu | 2012/08/23 09:33 PM |
64-bit pointers eat some performance | Foo_ | 2012/08/18 12:09 PM |
64-bit pointers eat some performance | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/18 05:25 PM |
64-bit pointers eat some performance | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/18 05:32 PM |
Page-related benefit of small pointers | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/23 08:36 AM |
Number of GPRs | Wilco | 2012/08/17 06:31 AM |
Number of GPRs | Kenneth Jonsson | 2012/08/17 11:54 AM |
Number of GPRs | Exophase | 2012/08/17 12:44 PM |
Number of GPRs | Kenneth Jonsson | 2012/08/17 01:22 PM |
Number of GPRs | Wilco | 2012/08/17 02:53 PM |
What about dynamic utilization? | Exophase | 2012/08/17 09:30 AM |
Compiler vs. assembly aliasing knowledge? | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/17 10:20 AM |
Compiler vs. assembly aliasing knowledge? | Exophase | 2012/08/17 11:09 AM |
Compiler vs. assembly aliasing knowledge? | anon | 2012/08/18 02:23 AM |
Compiler vs. assembly aliasing knowledge? | Ricardo B | 2012/08/19 11:02 AM |
Compiler vs. assembly aliasing knowledge? | anon | 2012/08/19 06:07 PM |
Compiler vs. assembly aliasing knowledge? | Ricardo B | 2012/08/19 07:26 PM |
Compiler vs. assembly aliasing knowledge? | anon | 2012/08/19 10:03 PM |
Compiler vs. assembly aliasing knowledge? | anon | 2012/08/20 01:59 AM |
Number of GPRs | David Kanter | 2012/08/17 12:46 PM |
RAT issues as part of reason 1 | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/17 02:18 PM |
Number of GPRs | name99 | 2012/11/17 06:37 PM |
Large ARFs increase renaming cost | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/11/17 09:23 PM |
Number of GPRs | David Kanter | 2012/08/16 03:31 PM |
Number of GPRs | Richard Cownie | 2012/08/16 05:17 PM |
32 GPRs ~2-3% | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/16 06:27 PM |
Oops, Message-ID: aaed6e38-c7bd-467e-ba41-f40cf1020e5e@googlegroups.com (NT) | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/16 06:29 PM |
32 GPRs ~2-3% | Exophase | 2012/08/16 10:06 PM |
R31 as SP/zero is kind of neat (NT) | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/17 06:23 AM |
32 GPRs ~2-3% | rwessel | 2012/08/17 08:24 AM |
32 GPRs ~2-3% | Exophase | 2012/08/17 09:16 AM |
32 GPRs ~2-3% | Max | 2012/08/17 04:19 PM |
32 GPRs ~2-3% | name99 | 2012/11/17 07:43 PM |
Number of GPRs | mpx | 2012/08/17 01:11 AM |
Latency and power | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/17 06:54 AM |
Number of GPRs | bakaneko | 2012/08/17 03:09 AM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Steve | 2012/08/17 02:12 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | David Kanter | 2012/08/19 12:42 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Doug S | 2012/08/19 02:02 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Anon | 2012/08/19 07:16 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Steve | 2012/08/30 07:51 AM |
Scalar vs Vector registers | Robert David Graham | 2012/08/19 05:19 PM |
Scalar vs Vector registers | David Kanter | 2012/08/19 05:29 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Baserock ARM servers | 2012/08/21 04:13 PM |
Baserock ARM servers | Sysanon | 2012/08/21 04:14 PM |
A-15 virtualization and LPAE? | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/21 06:13 PM |
A-15 virtualization and LPAE? | Anon | 2012/08/21 07:13 PM |
Half-depth advantages? | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/21 08:42 PM |
Half-depth advantages? | Anon | 2012/08/22 03:33 PM |
Thanks for the information (NT) | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/22 04:04 PM |
A-15 virtualization and LPAE? | C. Ladisch | 2012/08/23 11:12 AM |
A-15 virtualization and LPAE? | Paul | 2012/08/23 03:17 PM |
Excessive pessimism | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/23 04:08 PM |
Excessive pessimism | David Kanter | 2012/08/23 05:05 PM |
New Article: ARM Goes 64-bit | Michael S | 2012/08/22 07:12 AM |
BTW, Baserock==product, Codethink==company (NT) | Paul A. Clayton | 2012/08/22 08:56 AM |
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