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Re:An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V by pizlonator on Sunday November 01, 2020 @03:47PM (#24962372)
Arguably x86 only has a compressed encoding in the sense that super common instructions often fit in fewer than 4 bytes and some of the most used ones are 1 byte. I don’t think the compression is deliberate or optimal though.
Re:An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V by saagarjha on Sunday November 01, 2020 @05:26PM (#24963086)
Arguably most of the 1 byte instructions are garbage, though ;)
Re:An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V by rwmj on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:44PM (#24972244)
What, no love for AAA :-?

(IIRC they removed that one on x86-64)