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Re:Lipstick on a Pig a.k.a. the Raspberry Pi 3 by pcwalton on Sunday March 13, 2016 @02:37PM (#11278771)
A register file that's twice as large (NEON really suffers without the extra registers), and atomic operations that aren't dog slow. Doing anything other than scalar sequential programming on ARMv7 is pretty painful coming from x86.
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Re:Lipstick on a Pig a.k.a. the Raspberry Pi 3 by dbcurtis on Sunday March 13, 2016 @02:45PM (#11278803)
Yes, OK, that makes sense, at least for a chip that isn't doing register renaming the the back end, which takes a lot of pressure off the compiler's register allocator.
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