> it isn’t really an accurate way to discuss modern chips I think it’s still mostly accurate, CISC/RISC is about public API i.e. instruction set. What’s inside

> it isn’t really an accurate way to discuss modern chips I think it’s still mostly accurate, CISC/RISC is about public API i.e. instruction set. What’s inside a core is implementation details, very interesting ones and can be important for performance, but still. > ARM has instructions which do complex operations as well True, but I don’t think they combine these complex math operations with RAM access, in a single instruction?