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Arm's Cortex A73: Resource Limits, What Are Those? (chipsandcheese.com)
9 points by rbanffy 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



One thing I have been wondering ia if removing aarch32 support would make these cores more efficient. The 32-bit support is not limited to ISA (where instructions such as LPM can mess with the entire pipeline) but also the memory system since it has a completely different MMU set up.

Removing these should simplify the cores a little bit, and the unused area could be used for better predictions or more efficient fault handling.




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