It seems to me that the ILP is able to begin execution of branches before the branch is known to be true. def func(): if predicate(): t

It seems to me that the ILP is able to begin execution of branches before the branch is known to be true. def func(): if predicate(): task1() else: task2() In the above program, the processor would be able to speculatively start execution of task1 before the predicate function returned a value. (obviously the processor does this on a much lower level than this code)