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Re:RISC in 2022 by sroussey on Saturday October 22, 2022 @12:54PM (#33299957)
You mention the key part here—it was designed for compilers writing assembly, not people writing assembly.

And more importantly, future compilers, not the tech they had at the time.

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Re:RISC in 2022 by pclmulqdq on Saturday October 22, 2022 @05:09PM (#33302257)
This is probably the most important factor in the RISC revolution. The printed size of assembly doesn't matter any more (only the number of bytes), and neither does readability.
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