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Posted on September 20, 2013September 20, 2013 by jcberthon

Finally someone got it right regarding 64-bit performance increase:

It seems that the bulk of the A7’s performance gains do not come from any advantages inherent to a 64-bit architecture, but rather from the switch from the outdated ARMv7 instruction set to the newly-designed ARMv8. – iFixit iPhone 5s Teardown

CategoriesiOS Device, Technology Tags64-bit, ARM, CPU, performance

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