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Jim’s view of ARM being a CISC architecture is rather unconventional. The Wikipedia page literally describes it otherwise in the very first sentence [1]: > ARM
by seoaeu 4y ago
Jim’s view of ARM being a CISC architecture is rather unconventional. The Wikipedia page literally describes it otherwise in the very first sentence [1]:
> ARM (stylised in lowercase as arm, formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures for computer processors, configured for various environments.
[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family
- tomxor 4y agoYou are quoting the name of the company, who's name is 37 years old, not the current state of it's technology. It's true it was originally RISC, and is still somewhat RISC, but it's also true it's acquired many decidedly CISC instructions over the decades - is it CISC or RISC ? reality is not this simplistic, it's a bit of both, and I'm not qualified to judge how much of each.