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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf Wouldn't the VM itself be able to run faster once it's ported to ARMv8? I thought one of the main benefits of the abstraction layer afforded by the VM is that, at least in theory, the VM does all the hard wor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by patpatpat It's pretty much been established that moving from 32 to 64 bit compilation will only result in about a 6% performance improvement. It has been generally agreed here and in most of the tech press that the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by patpatpat That is the same for pretty much any 32-64 bit transition where the chip architecture doesn't undergo a major transformation. With the vastly optimized instruction set of armV8 you are going to get a simil…
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Quote: Originally Posted by patpatpat You do realize that Java application code is completely independent of the processor architecture. As a developer there is nothing you need to do to support 64 bit. (Unless you have some very specific nati…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pondosinatra Speaking of stupid....obviously you missed where I said it's being marketed by keying in on the fact it's 64-bit as if by that very virtue it's all super awesome. Like I said in a later post, many a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by akqies It's amazing how outdated those specs are now. I suppose, for me, part of it is that the G5 tower design is still be sold today and it'll still look great once the next Mac Pro launches. It amazed me to se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dillio If Apple set itself up for people to not care about these specs (ex. how much RAM my iPhone has, etc.) then it should live by those expectations. I could care less that the new iPhone has 32 or 64-bit processor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pondosinatra Unless the device has more than 4GB or memory - it is indeed just marketing fluff (yes the chip has other advantages, but that's not what's being pushed as being so great - it's just that it's a 64-bit ch…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Peter Windle My mac runs a LOT slower than most PC's that you can buy for HALF the price. This is FUD
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frood Building a 6 lane highway is extremely beneficial. In Los Angeles. In rural Kansas there wouldn't be much need for it and it would probably leave quite a few people scratching their heads as to why someone b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Not necessarily. We know that the A7 at 1.3 GHz RUNNING iOS beats the Exynos @1.8 GHz RUNNING ANDROID. The fact that they're running different operating systems makes it more complex. Maybe the performan…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frood Your last sentence is the fun part. I believe both have plenty of room for future improvements, but currently they are neck and neck. In the end it comes down to performance. The means is just the means. …
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I wonder when other Android players will start to declare war on Samsung. Currently every other Android maker is losing market share to Samsung.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frood Thanks for a civil and logical response. I just enjoy watching the technology play out. The Samsung phone do have a busier architecture- with metaphorically a lot more cars on the highway going to more desti…
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Quote: Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf More precisely, ARM64 programs derive much of their performance boost from the new instructions available only to A64 builds. That's why the improved performance is associated with the phrase "64-bit", whic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by starbird73 Well, technically, they aren't cheating. They are handicapping all non benchmark testing apps. The hardware is, obviously, capable of these speeds in some manner. But to make the user experience better,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frood The 32 bit note is faster than the 64 bit flagship Apple 5s. Base on which metric? The dual core A7 @ 1.3Ghz beats the Samsung Exynos 8-cores @ 1.8Ghz on both efficiency and performance hands down.
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Quote: Originally Posted by nonimus I'm really surprised to see that Apple wants to do custom GPUs. It's too bad they give the iPod Touch a two year old SoC. If gaming is an important part of the iOS platform why not update the SoC every …
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Quote: Originally Posted by 22July2013 How much space was saved by offloading some tasks to the M7 since "the A7 SoC no longer services the accelerometer, gyroscope and compass". Not so much I think. All sensors was and are still outside of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by LAKings33 Intel's first real attempt is the 64-bit out of order X86 Silvermont on a 22nm process. It costs $30~$40 per SoC (Bay Trail-T), and the performance is above any ARM CPU on the market. Airmont (16 14nm),…