[userbinator]

...and MIPS has the weird branch delay slots as well as pretty horrible code density.

If you look at ARM, particularly the 64-bit version, you'll notice it attempts to squeeze multiple operations into a single 32-bit "instruction". It's still called RISC, but not really "reduced" anymore.

[mastax]

Nowadays RISC seems to mean "load-store architecture" but I think the term should be left in the 90s. CS curriculum is slow to evolve.

[klelatti]

Not sure anyone sees "pure" RISC as being an advantage these days though. Didn't Intel demonstrate that you could get RISC-like performance from a CISC ISA even with all the drawbacks of x86 (instruction decoding complexity etc).