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by agnivade 2865 days ago
There has been some tremendous improvements for ARM architecture. If you run some serious code on raspberry PIs, get ready to be amazed.
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I skimmed the release notes, and only a little mention there ARM specific changes, can you elaborate on what tremendous improvements are made? Very curious!
Yes, the release notes are a bit humble about it.

Specifically, optimized assembly instructions are used now in crypto code and also lot of optimizations have gone into the ARM assembler.

One example - https://gist.github.com/carlosedp/f85274ef2a9bacc773cf8ddeed....