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RAM isn't much of a concern, relative to significantly increased needs for cache sizes and ROM sizes.

Aarch64 very much loses out; Microcontrollers are resource-constrained, so they won't use it.

High performance implementations (like Apple's M1) need to work around code density by making caches larger, or even having a microop cache; this all has transistor count cost, which imposes area cost, power cost and maximum clock cost.



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