MIPS code is not much larger. There are two interesting differences of ISA between MIPS and RISC-V: that MIPS does not have branch on condition, only on zero/n

MIPS code is not much larger. There are two interesting differences of ISA between MIPS and RISC-V: that MIPS does not have branch on condition, only on zero/non-zero and that MIPS has 16 bit immediates with appropriate sign extension (all zeroes for ORI, all ones for ANDI). The first difference makes MIPS programs about 10% larger and second difference makes MIPS programs smaller (RISC-V immediates are 11.5 bits due to mandatory sign extension, 13 bits are required to cover 95% of immediates in MIPS-like scheme), a percent or so, I think.