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Except that RISC-V ISA manages to reach infornation density on par with x86 via a simple, backwards-compatible instruction compression scheme. It eats up a lot of coding space, but they've managed to make it work quite nicely. ARM64 has nothing like that, even the old Thumb mode is dead.


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