Smartphones and D

[dennis luehring]

Am 31.01.2011 12:15, schrieb 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.

there are so many different ARM Architectures out there that i don't 
thing that someone will put an comming 64bit variant into an PDA... no 
one needs to be afraid here