Are RISC programs bigger than CISC?

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From: Joe Orost
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 01:24

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I have seen lots of benchmark figures that say that RISC machines
can go real fast, but how about the code size?  Is the old notion
that the code on a RISC will be about twice the size of that on a
CISC true?  Does anyone have information on this subject, especially
for large programs?

				regards,
				joe

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