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Rarebox on Dec 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: ODROID-C1 – Quad Core ARM Linux computer

This board only has 1GB RAM and no support for fast secondary storage (only USB2) so having 64bit address space would provide little benefit.

0x0 on Dec 14, 2014 [–]

I'm sure there are other advantages to AArch64, like a larger set of registers, that could still make it worthwhile. At the very least it might push down the prices on the old armv7 CPUs.

skrause on Dec 14, 2014 | [–]

The native AES encryption instruction set on AArch64 might also be really useful if you do any kind of encryption.

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