Re: RISC/CISC Hack Architecture

Posted by WBahn on
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I suspect most people would argue that Hack is pretty RISC-like. True, it has some seldom seen features, such as writing to multiple destinations and combining ALU operations and branching (and writing) in each C-type instruction, but each of these is very, very basic. The kinds of things that would move it toward the CISC side would be if there were instructions that did looping or that dereferenced arrays directly or that cleared segments of memory or copied segments of memory to another area of memory or had instructions specific to various data types and/or structures.