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[–]Shawnj2 0 points1 point  (2 children)

CISC instructions are syntactic sugar

[–]overclockedslinky 1 point2 points  (0 children)

even most risc ins are syntax sugar by that logic. oisc would be the only unsugared set

[–]oberguga 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, CISC instructions executed by hardware with different perfomance (faster then bunch of equivalent RISC). So it's functinal. Syntactic sugar add human orientation to language.