AArch64 has a lot of the "weird" parts of classic ARM removed. Predicated instructions are gone, the bizarre Java bytecode mode is gone, Thumb/instruction compression is gone. These makes the ISA easier to scale up to more sophisticated processor microarchitectures.
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AArch64 has a lot of the "weird" parts of classic ARM removed. Predicated instructions are gone, the bizarre Java bytecode mode is gone, Thumb/instruction compression is gone. These makes the ISA easier to scale up to more sophisticated processor microarchitectures.