Mmm, I think RISC has to be a relative term. (It does, after all, have "reduced" in its name, which implies a comparison with a less-reduced alternative.) So

Mmm, I think RISC has to be a relative term. (It does, after all, have "reduced" in its name, which implies a comparison with a less-reduced alternative.) So every time processor A has an instruction that can only be done with a sequence of several instructions on processor B, that is evidence that B is more RISCy than A.