Comments on: ARMv8 is 64bit, look for video interviews soon

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:38:00 +0000

Soon is relative, this is just introducing of the architecture but they have to set up a lot of things before we see any products. So more like a few years from now and even then it’s mainly being pushed for applications that would actually need it and they will continue to use 32bit products for awhile longer.

Like the x86 market, it may take over 10 years before everything becomes 64bit. Though aspects, like memory management will be one of the first things to start becoming common and we’ll see that much sooner.

By: Anders Kirchenbauer

Anders Kirchenbauer — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:38:00 +0000

Ask what this means for Thumb/Thumb2 (16-bit data/instructions as an optimization), if there is any new Jazelle type support for JVM or other virtual machines (Having Parrot (PERL), ruby, python, or other JIT VMs hardware accelerated would be awesome, but it is already quite fast on normal ARM), if there are required DSP components and the fate of VFP and what VFP-style hardfloat is required or if we could still see softfloat proprietary drivers that force the whole OS to step down to using emulation when actual FP hardware is in place.

By: Marc Guillot Puig

Marc Guillot Puig — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:53:00 +0000

Finally :). This are great news, soon we won’t have to pay the x86 monopoly tax.

By: Kraku

Kraku — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:34:00 +0000

64 bit is necessity for anything serious.
http://tietsikka.blogspot.com/2011/10/hp-ja-arm.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:51:00 +0000

WHOA! 64-bit ARM! I was wondering when that would happen. Nice.

By: Karel Gardas

Karel Gardas — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:05:00 +0000

ARMv8, exactly what I’m waiting for! Cool!