[revelation]

armv7 and armv8 is just 64 bit, so I guess a corner case like openssl signs could benefit massively (lots of bigint) but normal workloads only marginally, while taking a massive hit on memory (don't want the 1 GiB model).

The ARM they tested at Cloudflare is also of course nothing like the mobile chip that powers the pine.

[theresistor]

AArch64 is actually a completely new and much improved instruction set. More registers, less warts that inhibit out-of-order execution, etc.