the RISC example in the article is a bit weird: on one hand, it may take even more instructions to load an address in a RISC, on the other hand all the RISC I k

the RISC example in the article is a bit weird: on one hand, it may take even more instructions to load an address in a RISC, on the other hand all the RISC I know have an 'addi' instruction, no need to do 'li r2, 1; add r3, r1, r2' to add 1 to a register!