Branch prediction has gotten a lot better, that's true. Especially by taking more preceding branches into account. But saying that branch mispredictions rarely

Branch prediction has gotten a lot better, that's true. Especially by taking more preceding branches into account. But saying that branch mispredictions rarely matter seems a way too strong statement. In a lot of halfway performance critical software a large number of pipeline stalls are caused by wrongly predicted branches, and utilizing the pipeline efficiently is IMO becoming Mir, not less, important.