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by Const-me 2987 days ago
I don’t think implementation details are relevant for CISC vs RISC. At least not anymore. I think it’s a characteristic of CPU’s instruction set. Not the internal undocumented instructions, but the instructions publically available to programmers.

Also, ARM says their CPU designs are based on RISC principles: https://developer.arm.com/products/architecture/cpu-architec...