>There's not even a need to look at the research, which shows RISC-V as the clear winner in code density. It is enough to grab any Linux distribution that suppo

>There's not even a need to look at the research, which shows RISC-V as the clear winner in code density. It is enough to grab any Linux distribution that supports RISC-V and look at the size of the binaries across architectures. Wait, if we are talking about actual ISA instructions, why is it hard to believe that RISC-V would have more of them ? The argument in favor of RISC is to simplify the frontend because even for a complex ISA like x86, the instructions will get converted to many micro-ops. In terms of actual ISA instructions, it seems quite reasonable that x86 would have fewer of those (at the cost of frontend complexity).