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		jhallenworld on Dec 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Risc V greatly underperforms” All other things equal, you would prefer smaller code for better cache use.

volta83 on Dec 3, 2021 [–]

8x 2 byte instructions (16 bytes) lead to smaller code than 4x 8 byte instructions (32 bytes).

Counting number of instructions isn't really a good metric for that either.

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