If you need twitter or Facebook to get a job, well, I am sorry, very very sorry for you.

ARM can definitely beat intel at its own game. Cores introduced now have a comparable FP performance, which is where there is the largest gap at the moment. The Scalable Vector Extensions will leapfrog anything intel will have, with code compiled once and automatically running on machines with 128-bit, 256-bit, 512-bit, 1024-bit or 2048-bit long vectors – and using all the parallelism offered by the system. Integer performance is already on par or better while at the same time using less power. Look up "Fujitsu Fugaku" if you want to see an ARM-based supercomputer. The ISA is more orthogonal and has less baggage, which significantly simplifies decoders – also, ARM chips do not have to use microcode, reducing all the associated problems. So, yes, it is a matter of time, and we are nearly there, but you can expect ARM compatible chips to outperform intel and AMD ones in almost any market. And if you are following recent progress on binary translation and emulation, you should not even have a performance penalty while running code compiled or x86.

Well, can "suppression of the opposition [...] especially leftist parties" be left wing? It sounds quite right wing. And "retention of private ownership of the means of production under centralized government control" does not look like left wing either. So, yes, fascism IS an explicitly right wing idea. Roberto

"Bullshit" is the FIRST force :-)

1) it is different because some articles seem to imply that they "emulate" iOS. They do not. They emulate the HW it runs on. So they are using iOS on an unauthorised device. Whether you think this is good or bad is irrelevant, this is a matter of law. And I am not a lawyer, but clearly you are not one as well.

2) I am not an Apple-fanboy, even though I use Apple products because they (on average) suck, but still less than all alternatives [hint, my former student Halvar Flake used to say the same]. As for "level of incompetence", well, try to figure out who I am and what role I have at my employer.

There are two points here. The first one is that they are not actually "emulating" the operating system - they emulate the hardware and run Apple's stock iOS on their emulation platform. So they use Apple's software on an unauthorised platform. You may not like this but who writes the software has the right to restrict its use. The second point here is that even their behaviour would probably get some protection from the law if they used their emulation tech for academic purposes, or to help the common good. But this is not the case. Hence they are violating Apple's IP rights to get a profit. What apple is doing is not "communism/socialism/totalitarianism". It is capitalism, and in fact a rare case where it is actually good.

Not to speak of the SACD copy protection schemes (both HW and SW), that helped inflict heavy hits to the concept of high resolution audio (luckily, DRM free legal downloads are coming now to the rescue)

Well, ok, now I see the connection, but, again, these are two independent things. SVLTE can be implemented today already. It was done already with the MSM8960 and MDM9x15 from 2012, using only one baseband (previous solutions used two) but required additional antennas (IIRC three, and two RF chips).

32-bit ARM already addresses more than 32 bits: recent 32 bit ARM architectures have a 48 bit address space, and several chips support 36 or 40 bits. The problem of individual applications addressing at most 32 bits is minor, at this stage, but sooner or later we will have big graphics editing applications on Tablets, and larger address spaces help.

The main advantage that Aarch64 has at this very moment is that it offers a more streamlined instruction set (that makes instructions easier to reorder) and more registers. Even just compiling 32 bit code in the new model you can get impressive performance gains.

Roberto

64-bit ARM and support for simultaneous voice and LTE/SVDO are completely different things.

The 64-bit ARM cores are application processors (AP). They do not control the modem (that can be part of the SoC together with the AP or an external component): Qualcomm modems have nifty internally developed (and publicly documented) a VLIW CPU called "Hexagon" that offers DSP-like instructions to control the modem. Some modems have two, and another Hexagon is used to process audio and cal also run user provided applications. You can find some information here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q... and a lot more is linked.

And even this has nothing to do with dual radios. They are independent things.

Roberto

I would start with Max Planck.

Well, with Clang/LLVM you can compile the kernel straight to the target architecture with run time optimization turned off, as well as building what else you want, for instance your applications, with run time optimization turned on. Easy as customizing your Makefiles.

Roberto

And much more. I guess unixisc should head to http://llvm.org/ and see how many applications LLVM has. It was used to build compilers way before the Clang project started.

OK, please explain this. It will be fun.