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Re:X86 Register Encoding by imtringued on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @03:34AM (#12852892)
>The secret? Supporting both ISAs and switching instruction sets on exceptions.

The secret is that Apple controls their hardware/appstore and android apps are ISA independent.

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Re:X86 Register Encoding by adrianratnapala on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @06:16AM (#12853392)
Whot?

Didn't the AMD64 architecture spank Itanium in the marketplace long before the iPhone became a big deal?

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