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Re:Analyzing the complexity of various RISC/CISC architectures by pizlonator on Saturday December 31, 2022 @09:42PM (#34203054)
It’s amazing how much of this is still valid.

One thing isn’t - 5a, unaligned access. Some modern RISCs allow this, probably because there’s enough code out there that does it.

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Re:Analyzing the complexity of various RISC/CISC architectures by Gibbon1 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:41AM (#34205285)
I think the issue is due to the way modern memory architectures work alignment restrictions don't buy you much. In particular because memory accesses suck in a whole cache line. As long as all the data is in the cache line it's easy enough to swap bytes around on the fly.
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