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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by saati on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:21AM (#27233640)
The v7->v8 jump was the biggest one in the history of ARM, it's totally redesigned, they only kept the name.
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Re:Animated GIF uses over 35GB RAM in Acorn on M1 Mac, likel... by mumblemumble on Friday May 21, 2021 @09:28AM (#27233719)
Well, that and the ability to run v7 code if you switch it into aarch32 mode.

So one could be forgiven, I should think, for thinking the shift was more comparable to x86 -> amd64 than it was to x86 -> ia64.

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