ah! the author of that hwbot.org post is Alex Yee; I remember his name as he wrote that insanely upvoted (and awesome) stackoverflow answer on branch mispredict

ah! the author of that hwbot.org post is Alex Yee; I remember his name as he wrote that insanely upvoted (and awesome) stackoverflow answer on branch misprediction: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902 http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902