Regardless of the IPC level, 5 CISC instructions for 1 BF instruction sounds exceptional low, it's something that an 200 bytes naive compiler would produce. An

Regardless of the IPC level, 5 CISC instructions for 1 BF instruction sounds exceptional low, it's something that an 200 bytes naive compiler would produce. An optimizing compiler capable of generating the full gamut of x86 instructions would increase the IPC by at least one order of magnitude, the majority of BF code are boilerplate structures that set up loops, move data around, repeated increments to generate constants etc. Being a very simple language with limited and well defined side effects, it lends itself exceptionally well to reordering.