Smartphones and D

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 31.01.2011 12:57, schrieb Daniel Gibson:
> Am 31.01.2011 12:04, schrieb dennis luehring:
>>> While workstations for developers have bigger and completely different
>>> requirements, in general the most demanding applications for ordinary
>>> sixpack-joe are hd-video transcoding (which actually isn't memory
>>> intensive), image manipulation (this year's basic $100 models already
>>> sport a sensor of 14 megapixels => 45 MB per image layer), and
>>> surprisingly web browsing.
>>>
>>> The ARM equipment support this by providing powerful co-processors and
>>> having a tiny (Thumb) instruction set. It's really hard to see where they
>>> would need more than 4 GB of RAM.. even according to Moore's law it will
>>> take at least 6 years for the top of the line products to use this much
>>> memory.
>>
>> but they work on 64bit:
>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197298/Arm_readies_processing_cores_for_64_bit_computing
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Hmm I didn't know about that. I thought I read some months ago that porting ARM
> to 64bit is almost impossible.
> 
> As a side note, a comment on the article:
> "However, it's easy to imagine a service such as Amazon's EC2 offering
> virtualized Linux instances without the user being aware that it's an ARM setup,
> and these could be cheaper than equivalent x86 instances (perhaps even making
> for a "budget EC2" service)."
> This is BS, because the user is *directly* using EC2 VMs (can use his own
> binaries etc), so he *will* care if it runs x86 or ARM. And I don't think anyone
> would want to emulate x86 on ARM...
> 
> Cheers,
> - Daniel

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/2/7/arms-east-denies-64-bit-chip-plans/