Smartphones and D

[retard]

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:04:11 +0100, dennis luehring wrote:

>> 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

What this means is that the same add/sub/mul/div calculator program which 
previously needed 2000 bytes of RAM on my grandfather's PDA soon uses 500 
GB.