20 Jul
2016
20 Jul
'16
10:32 a.m.
It is true
that a few RISC architectures are not very scrutable.
Itanium is a notorious example, as are some VLIW machines. But many
RISC machines are much more sane. MIPS and ARM certainly are no
problem for any competent assembly language programmer.
Indeed. I've written a modest amount of assembly language code for
MIPS, and a bit more for ARM, and I didn't find either at all
inscrutable. Yes, be aware of pipelining and branches and so on, but
it's not hard.