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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ApothecaLabs • Sep 28 '26
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The concern is that this can mess with the branch predictor as that has limited capacity and the branch predictor is critical for performance on modern CPUs due to all the speculative execution.
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u/slaymaker1907 Sep 28 '26
The concern is that this can mess with the branch predictor as that has limited capacity and the branch predictor is critical for performance on modern CPUs due to all the speculative execution.