486 vs ARM is a good comparison as both are the extreme cases of CISC and RISC designs. So much that for a real instruction mix generated by reasonably modern c

486 vs ARM is a good comparison as both are the extreme cases of CISC and RISC designs. So much that for a real instruction mix generated by reasonably modern compilers (think gcc3 and up), 486 is actually more of an RISC than ARM with its bunch of variants of ldm/stm.