Question

Both the CISC and RISC architectures have been developed to reduce the ______

(a) Cost

(b) Time delay

(c) Semantic gap

(d) All of the mentioned

This question was posed to me during an interview for a job.

My question is from CISC and RISC Processors in section Arithmetic of Computer Architecture

Answer 1

Right option is (c) Semantic gap

To explain: The semantic gap is the gap between the high level language and the low level language.