Re:Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for ...
by frankchn on Tuesday August 12, 2014 @04:02AM
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64-bit support on ARM entails the implementation of AArch64 - not just widening the current registers to 64-bits and nothing else.
AArch64 has a better instruction set and more general purpose registers (31 vs 16), so applications recompiled to target AArch64 should see performance benefits even if it only uses 1 MB of RAM and never encounters integers greater than 2^32.
AArch64 has a better instruction set and more general purpose registers (31 vs 16), so applications recompiled to target AArch64 should see performance benefits even if it only uses 1 MB of RAM and never encounters integers greater than 2^32.