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Reminder that RISC/CISC are labels placed upon an ISA (the software-hardware interface). The microarchitecture (how the CPU is internally designed, how it exec
by snvzz 4y ago
Reminder that RISC/CISC are labels placed upon an ISA (the software-hardware interface).
The microarchitecture (how the CPU is internally designed, how it executes instructions) is irrelevant to RISC vs CISC.
- steponlego 4y agoThis might be mostly true now but wasn't always.