By: Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com), February 4, 2013 2:43 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Patrick Chase (patrickjchase.delete@this.gmail.com) on February 4, 2013 10:14 am wrote:
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> Out of that group, AArch64 wins the "simplicity" prize by a mile IMO.
After you take into account that, in addition to Arm64, AArch64 cores will have to properly execute Thumb2 and, may be, fixed-width ARM32 too, and likely, not just user-mode staff, but kernel stuff as well, you may reconsider...
> Throw MIPS and Alpha in and there's more of a discussion.
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These two are not in the race in high-performance general-purpose space.
> -- Patrick
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> Out of that group, AArch64 wins the "simplicity" prize by a mile IMO.
After you take into account that, in addition to Arm64, AArch64 cores will have to properly execute Thumb2 and, may be, fixed-width ARM32 too, and likely, not just user-mode staff, but kernel stuff as well, you may reconsider...
> Throw MIPS and Alpha in and there's more of a discussion.
>
These two are not in the race in high-performance general-purpose space.
> -- Patrick
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