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Re:AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks by staticassertion on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:39PM (#31297845)
Presumably the cost here is that your instructions are considerably larger, which means fitting fewer of them into cache?
Re:AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks by danachow on Saturday May 07, 2022 @04:23PM (#31298208)
The code density of ARM64 is not that much worse than x64 - especially for anything generated by a modern compiler. You may get some small scale gains for hand tuned code with careful instruction and register selection (ie where Rex prefix can be more easily avoided) - but average binary density doesn’t overcome the aforementioned differences in efficiency.