RISC-V has often been described as being "too extreme" in its minimalism but, despite the extra instructions needed (not as many as critics claim via worst case

RISC-V has often been described as being "too extreme" in its minimalism but, despite the extra instructions needed (not as many as critics claim via worst case micro-examples), riscv64 code is still considerably smaller than amd64 or arm64 code. Both amd64's "extreme instruction size variability" and arm64's "extreme only one instruction size" philosophies give worse results than riscv64's "two instructions lengths make small code that is still easy to parse in a wide machine". You'd have thought Arm of all people would have known that, but oh well... Source: looking at the output of "size" on binaries in the the last couple of years of Fedora / Debian / Ubuntu etc versions that support all three.