Right, I think I understand what you are saying about "pipelined" implementations. Sure, I can believe that at a high level there are some indirect branches to

Right, I think I understand what you are saying about "pipelined" implementations. Sure, I can believe that at a high level there are some indirect branches to implement some kind of processing pipeline: but you'd have thousands or millions of instructions doing the heavy lifting for each chunk of data that passes though the pipeline, for every branch that you need to take to get to the next stage. So I still doubt that that indirect branches are "dense" in those benchmarks: it just doesn't make sense since the core work they are doing are highly tuned encode/decode/whatever kernels, even if there is a control layer over top of that using indirect branches.