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@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ of the order of 10^5 or greater SMP atomic locks per second.
 
 Implementations have a hard time recognizing existing atomic operations
 via macro-op fusion because they would often have to detect and fuse a
-large number of instructions, including branches.
+large number of instructions, including branches. This is contrary
+to the RISC paradigm.
 
 There is also the issue that PowerISA's memory fences are unnecessarily
 strong, particularly `isync` which is used for a lot of `acquire` and