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[pjmlp]

ARM is very CISCy in their instruction set.

[mst → pjmlp]

So far as I can tell, people still call ARM RISC because it's load/store and x86 isn't (feel free to correct me on this, I'm not a CPU person), and ARM's instruction proliferation gets glossed over.

I do remember writing asm for the arm26 (arm2) chip in my Archimedes and that was definitely actual RISC, but obviously these days not so much.

[pjmlp → mst]

Most likely, however load/store alone doesn't make a RISC.

[sgerenser → pjmlp]

My favorite “CISCy” instruction on ARM64 is FJCVTZS: Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero.