In article <3ca5bf52@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   That depends on how you define CISC and RISC.
>   I don't think there are really many instructions, so one could say that
> it's a "reduced instruction set". However, one typical feature of CISC is
> that each instruction takes the same amount of memory and 1 clock cycle to
> execute, which I don't think is the case.

It shows some typical RISC characteristics:  Each instruction takes the same
amount of memory (usually 4 bytes or whatever two shorts in a struct will need
depending on the compiler/platform used) and it is designed as load/store
architecture.  As for execution time, basic instructions offer somewhere
around 1/10 to 1/20 of the target architecture speed.

    Thorsten

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