You might be interested in Itanium and the IA-64 architecture, which has what is referred to as branch predication: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2001/cmsc41

You might be interested in Itanium and the IA-64 architecture, which has what is referred to as branch predication: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2001/cmsc411/projects/IA64-2/411project.htm http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2001/cmsc411/projects/IA64-2... http://www.drdobbs.com/embedded-systems/predication-speculation-and-modern-cpus/184404099 http://www.drdobbs.com/embedded-systems/predication-speculat... Predication allows all of the code to be executed, and a subset of the results of the code — those from the failing test — discarded.