On: John Mashey on RISC/CISC

[renox]

> What ARM lacked in academic purity it made up in pragmatic simplicity of implementation

'pragmatic simplicity of implementation'? Mmm, what about LDM/STM (load/store multiple registers)?

Of course they dropped this with the ARMv8 (64bit) ISA..

I wonder if they are still interesting differences between the ARMv8 and the MIPS ISA? From my (uninformed) POV they look very similar..