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cs-stanford-edu-3327		RISC vs. CISC			.html	text/html	1028	81	69	RISC architecture is by contrasting it with it's predecessor: CISC (Complex instruction loads the two values into separate registers, multiplies the MULT is what is known as a "complex instruction." It operates little RAM is required to store instructions. RISC processors only use simple instructions that can be described in the CISC approach, a programmer would need to code four lines needed to store the assembly level instructions. perform more work to convert a high-level language statement into code of Because each instruction requires only one clock cycle to Separating the "LOAD" and "STORE" instructions actually reduces the command is executed, the processor automatically erases the registers. must re-load the data from the memory bank into a register. The CISC approach attempts to minimize the number of instructions per program, sacrificing the number of cycles per instruction. the opposite, reducing the cycles per instruction at the cost of the number	./cache/cs-stanford-edu-3327.html	./txt/cs-stanford-edu-3327.txt