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		direwolf20 28 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C isn't a programming language anymore (2022) The compiler usually can't do anything about branch prediction. Expect is more about keeping cold paths out of the cache.

pjmlp 28 days ago [–]

Actually that was one of the problems with EPIC architectures, where compilers are expected to be the ones doing those kind of optimizations.

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