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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECint talks about a dozen programs they selected for single-core logic and discrete math, including gcc and bzip2 (there are more than a dozen others using floats).

Over time, RISC and CISC borrowed from each other: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project...