Re: 64-bit iOS
Re: 64-bit iOS
- Subject: Re: 64-bit iOS
- From: Paul Franz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:18:27 -0400
Should be interesting to see how this plays out. When it comes to Java, when you switch from a 32-bit JVM to a 64-bit JVM there is a 10% penalty doing so. The main reason has to do with pointers. All pointers double in size. The effect might be less in a Objective-C program.
Paul Franz
On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Tom Davie <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 10 Sep 2013, at 23:30, Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> For ARM, 64 bit matters because the instruction set has been updated to provider better performances.
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>> I just hope the performance boost provided by this architecture change will be enough to balance the slow-down due to the increase of instruction and pointer size.
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> Note, this was actually more significant on x86, where most of the mess caused by CISC (like having bugger all registers) got sorted out.
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> Tom Davie
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