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by theresistor 3848 days ago
AArch64 is a dramatically nicer instruction set than AArch32.
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Is it actually? You loose almost all the conditional execution, lots of the interesting shifted addressing (I think Aarch64 allows shifts up to 3 only). You get more registers. Oh and no 16-bit instruction mode anymore.
Care to elaborate?
Nicer that's debatable: it's better suited to 'high performance' implementation but that doesn't necessarily make it nicer for users..