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by aengelke 194 days ago
I fully agree, but:

> these are the string instructions like REP MOVSB

AArch64 nowadays has somewhat similar CPY* and SET* instructions. Does that make AArch64 CISC? :-) (Maybe REP SCASB/CMPSB/LODSB (the latter being particularly useless) is a better example.)