Full information on iPhone5S's ARM64 64bit processor
Read this article today : Here is the complete information about what you need to know on Apple's ARM64 64-bit processor in iPhone5S as an iOS Developer. Here's my favourite stuff from the article : " Adding it all together, it's a pretty big win. My casual benchmarking indicates that basic object creation and destruction takes about 380ns on a 5S running in 32-bit mode, while it's only about 200ns when running in 64-bit mode. If any instance of the class has ever had a weak reference and an associated object set, the 32-bit time rises to about 480ns, while the 64-bit time remains around 200ns for any instances that were not themselves the target. " Here's the conclusion from the article : " The "64-bit" A7 is not just a marketing gimmic, but neither is it an amazing breakthrough that enables a new class of applications. The truth, as happens often, lies in between. The simple fact of moving to 64-bit does little. I...