You could, but I doubt it would have much of an effect on performance. Modern CPUs are ridiculously good at looking ahead and executing paths pre-emptively, mea

You could, but I doubt it would have much of an effect on performance. Modern CPUs are ridiculously good at looking ahead and executing paths pre-emptively, meaning that branching is far less of an issue. On the older consoles, branching was a big issue, so that would have helped there.