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Re:Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips by JetSetWilly on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:43PM (#18408106)
Even if one arch is intrinsically lower power than the other, I am not sure that x86 would be the one to come off worse.

For example, could one not argue that an x86 binary / code size is on average smaller and more dense than the ARM equivalent, therefore on x86 cache misses will be less common, less ram needs to be used etc etc. Perhaps a denser binary is better for power consumption?

Although this effect would be very marginal even if it is present at all.

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Re:Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12 Gb DRAM Chips by adrr on Thursday November 08, 2018 @12:58PM (#18408259)
Interesting on the code size. How does pipeline length effect this? ARM is a lot shorter so a miss doesn't matter as much. Intel once tried to push long pipelines with their netburst architecture but real-world scenarios didn't really show any improvements. Are the compilers better at branch prediction now?
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