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A comment on 64-bit ARM chips in iPhone 5S serve up taste of Intel-free future for Apple. Parent comment

Re:64-bit ARM chips in iPhone 5S serve up taste of Intel-fre... by mikeash on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @07:06PM (#6370776)
In theory true, but in a practical sense, roughly no real-world programs are going to use more RAM than they can actually address with a raw pointer, which means that roughly no real-world programs are going to take advantage of more than 4GB of RAM on a 32-bit CPU.
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