The other advantage of the CISC is that it acts like a higher-level API. Many early RISC designs suffered because they were so low-level that early implementat

The other advantage of the CISC is that it acts like a higher-level API. Many early RISC designs suffered because they were so low-level that early implementation details (like wait states) had to be "emulated" in later processors for compatibility. It might not be advantageous to just compress a RISC stream of instructions instead of higher level instructions made up of micro-ops for that reason alone.