That's 1k instructions ONLY in their most RISC-like form. It also generally excludes stuff like MOV effectively translating into countless instructions when you

That's 1k instructions ONLY in their most RISC-like form. It also generally excludes stuff like MOV effectively translating into countless instructions when you start looking at all it's variants based on source/destination type, data types, concatenated instructions tacked on, etc (MOV alone is technically Turing complete[0]). All that stuff is spelled out in the instruction and while it may have the same mnemonic, the actual binary output is different. In these terms, the actual number of instructions is likely in at least the tens of thousands. In comparison, RISC-V splits off loads and stores into separate instructions. It further splits off each size of load/store into even more instructions. Start clumping all of this stuff together and RISC-V instruction count would also plummet. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61048788/why-is-mov-turing-complete https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61048788/why-is-mov-turi...