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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by baybal2 on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:33PM (#18149491)
Huuuiuuge caches, and optimisations for using them as efficiently as possible: probably async prefetch, possibly a semblance of maskable cache, very likely reordering for cache missing ops.

Here, the prehistoric nature of x86 actually drags it down because of poor predictability

Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by astrange on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:14AM (#18154739)
x86-64 is decently predictable, probably the same as armv8. i386 wouldn't be because it has to spill to memory so much you can barely manage to rename those registers.