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Re:Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainf... by coolspot on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:31PM (#21839966)
If I understand homomorphic encryption right, in CISC case it will go through all possible instructions instead of all possible branches, so no advantage here.

From repo:

> This is because at every cycle, the VM has to go through every possible instruction on every possible data cell.

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Re:Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Brainf... by gliese1337 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:14PM (#21840267)
Ah. So you want a minimal instruction set, balanced with the ability to do branch-free programming.
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