Yes and no. Regardless of what early RISCs lacked relative to the 6502 (and other contemporaries), they were generally much fast overall, operated on wider wor

Yes and no. Regardless of what early RISCs lacked relative to the 6502 (and other contemporaries), they were generally much fast overall, operated on wider words (32 v 8 bit) and had access to vastly larger memories. So there were often analogous workarounds, but different in details. For example, replacing calculating sine with a lookup table is much easier and more accurate when you can toss it someplace in your 16MB or whatever of memory rather than try and shoehorn it into 64k.