Compilers on Hanh Pham's Bloghttps://hanhpham.vercel.app/tags/compilers/Recent content in Compilers on Hanh Pham's BlogHugoen-usThu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0700The ISA Is a Contract, Not a Benchmark: What the Instruction Set Still Costs You in 2026https://hanhpham.vercel.app/posts/isa-as-a-contract-risc-vs-cisc/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0700https://hanhpham.vercel.app/posts/isa-as-a-contract-risc-vs-cisc/Four decades of micro-op convergence absorbed the classic textbook differences between RISC and CISC, but the instruction set still bills you in three places you cannot optimize away: memory ordering contracts, frontend silicon budgets, and ecosystem sovereignty.