Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo (2004)
by astrange on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @08:11PM
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ARM isn't a pure RISC anymore; it has complex addressing modes and arm7 has different instruction lengths. Complicated instructions are still worth adding if they happen to be hardware efficient, instruction fusing and cracking are expensive too and aren't optimization miracles.
I don't think RISC is a very useful term.