From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca   
      
   >> I wonder if there have been other studies to explore other impacts   
   >> such as run time, or cache miss rate.   
   > The difficulty there is standardising the input data, and normalising   
   > processor performance, memory bandwidth and latency, etc.   
      
   I was thinking of those "compressed" variants of ISAs, such as Thumb,   
   Thumb2, MIPS16e, microMIPS, or the "C" option of RISC-V, where you can   
   compare with/without on the very same machine since all the half-size   
   instructions are also available in full-size.   
      
   > Code segment size is much easier to measure.   
      
   Yes, but!   
      
      
           Stefan   
      
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