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Note that recentish high-end ARM processors (Cortex-A9) are out-of-order and superscalar, and have long pipelines.


Indeed, although not to quite the same degree as x86 implementations. They are also dual issue so you'll only get a maximum ILP of 2 although that likely won't hurt that much. I was going to include a bibliography but the post was long enough!


Cortex-A15 and Apple A6 are the high-end now. Cortex-A9's are so small and (relatively) cheap that they throw 4 of them on $20 tablet SoCs even for applications that don't really benefit from many cores.




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