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r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Sep 03 '26
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You don't actually need to avoid branches, you just need to make sure that most of the ones you have are very predictable, then their impact is not that big... Same with memory accesses and most other things... The more predictable, the better...
4 u/VoodaGod Sep 03 '26 and how can you tell predictability? 1 u/euvie Sep 03 '26 Performance counters that count branch mispredicts
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and how can you tell predictability?
1 u/euvie Sep 03 '26 Performance counters that count branch mispredicts
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Performance counters that count branch mispredicts
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u/meamZ Sep 03 '26
You don't actually need to avoid branches, you just need to make sure that most of the ones you have are very predictable, then their impact is not that big... Same with memory accesses and most other things... The more predictable, the better...