New posts in Branch Prediction

Do branch likelihood hints carry through function calls?

Performance of "conditional call" on amd64

Avoid stalling pipeline by calculating conditional early

What is the effect of ordering if...else if statements by probability?

Why is (a*b != 0) faster than (a != 0 && b != 0) in Java?

Branch-aware programming

What branch misprediction does the Branch Target Buffer detect?

Is there a compiler hint for GCC to force branch prediction to always go a certain way?

Does a branch misprediction flush the entire pipeline, even for very short if-statement body?

branch prediction on a function pointer