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To some extent. I seem to recall people saying that by restricting the range of page sizes they could make the L1 cache virtually indexed but physically tagged instead of physically indexed and tagged as Android phone processors are. That means you can start the lookup before the address translation is complete but still avoid aliasing problems.

EDIT: But I think another part of it is just being willing to throw more transistors at the problem than Android phone SoC manufacturers are and also that their higher income makes spending more on engineering make sense.



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