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nolist_policy ◴[] No.41366371[source]
> The x86 instruction set is very very big. According to rough statistics, the ARM64 backend implements more than 1,600 x86 instructions in total, while the RV64 backend implements about 1,000 instructions

This is just insane and gets us full-circle to why we want RISC-V.

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1. ben-schaaf ◴[] No.41368705[source]
ARM64 has approximately 1300 instructions.