This is a red herring and considering that RISC-V binaries are generally the same size or smaller than x86, there are certainly code sequences where RISC-V is m

This is a red herring and considering that RISC-V binaries are generally the same size or smaller than x86, there are certainly code sequences where RISC-V is much smaller for the same code. Another interesting metric is that x86 average instruction length is 4.25 bytes[0] which further implies that x86 instructions are only getting longer as time goes by. Meanwhile, RISC-V should continue to get more dense as new instructions are added. [0] https://aakshintala.com/papers/instrpop-systor19.pdf https://aakshintala.com/papers/instrpop-systor19.pdf