New posts in branch-prediction

When should streams be preferred over traditional loops for best performance? Do streams take advantage of branch-prediction?

In Java, can & be faster than &&?

What branch misprediction does the Branch Target Buffer detect?

Performance optimisations of x86-64 assembly - Alignment and branch prediction

Why is a conditional move not vulnerable for Branch Prediction Failure?

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

Is "IF" expensive?

Slow jmp-instruction

Why is processing an unsorted array the same speed as processing a sorted array with modern x86-64 clang?

An expensive jump with GCC 5.4.0

What does `rep ret` mean?

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?

Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?