3 ms·
More broadly this is probably a move from ARMv7 to ARMv8, which brings about a bunch of performance improvements besides 64-bit-ness: more registers, double-pre
by apendleton 13y ago
More broadly this is probably a move from ARMv7 to ARMv8, which brings about a bunch of performance improvements besides 64-bit-ness: more registers, double-precision floating-point SIMD, hardware AES and SHA extensions, etc. This probably mostly opens up performance improvement potential for games, but things like SSL could also get faster.
- defap 13y agoA 64-bit virtual address space also makes for much more effective address space layout randomization.
- simcop2387 13y agoI imagine it also helps them deal with doing the h264 encoding and such that they need to get the lightning connector to do the hdmi output that they built. The added SIMD stuff in ARMv8 was also largely targeting video encoding also I believe.