GCC Compiler Adds Support For ARM's Cortex-A73

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GCC Compiler Adds Support For ARM's Cortex-A73

22 June 2016, 08:10 AM

Phoronix: GCC Compiler Adds Support For ARM's Cortex-A73

The latest GCC 7 development code now has support for the ARM Cortex-A73 processor...

GCC Compiler Adds Support For ARM's Cortex-A73 - Phoronix

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22 June 2016, 09:40 PM

So what does this mean: does the A73 have new instructions that GCC 7 now uses, or does it just allow the generated code to be optimised to A73-specific instructions latencies while remaining compatible with previous ARMv8 cores?
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