I wouldn't scrutinize it too much as the benchmarking approach is wildly inaccurate, but I'm curious about that too. I might investigate it later. (I am the a

I wouldn't scrutinize it too much as the benchmarking approach is wildly inaccurate, but I'm curious about that too. I might investigate it later. (I am the author of the post.) This was also run on a pretty ancient AMD machine, which isn't terribly representative of modern branch prediction hardware.