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Re:Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for ... by pjmlp on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @03:37AM (#8166872)
Yes, you can make use of extra bits for metadata like type tagging for treating objects as value types and GC information.

Quite useful when moving away from C into languages like Objective-C, Swift, Java, C#, ... as the ones with first class treatment on the vendor SDKs

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