"What is the minimum number of instructions a compiler could make use of to get everything done that it needs?" I didn't go for the absolute minimum, but I did

"What is the minimum number of instructions a compiler could make use of to get everything done that it needs?" I didn't go for the absolute minimum, but I did aim for useful and reasonable minimum with the ggx[1] ISA (now called moxie[1]) by defining the ISA incrementally and only adding instructions used by GCC. The approach I took is described here: [1] https://github.com/atgreen/ggx https://github.com/atgreen/ggx [2] http://moxielogic.org/ http://moxielogic.org/