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pizlonator on Nov 1, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V

Arguably x86 only has a compressed encoding in the sense that super common instructions often fit in fewer than 4 bytes and some of the most used ones are 1 byte. I don’t think the compression is deliberate or optimal though.

saagarjha on Nov 1, 2020 [–]

Arguably most of the 1 byte instructions are garbage, though ;)

rwmj on Nov 2, 2020 | [–]

What, no love for AAA :-?

(IIRC they removed that one on x86-64)

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