[kllrnohj]

RISC changed everything just like CISC did. It was a product of changing times & tradeoffs.

Both RISC and CISC are effectively marginalized, though. The current trend for everything beyond embedded is somewhere kinda in the middle. With the some pretty pointless nitpicking about if something is or isn't RISC and devolving that entire movement down to just "but it doesn't do memory indexing!" or whatever.

It turns out what makes a fast processor is something that uses both RISC and CISC ideas. And that's what nearly everything does these days as a result, because speed is all that matters