No, compare and branch is kind of the expected instruction in an architecture that has no condition codes (mips has compare with 0 but essentially the same 6) -

No, compare and branch is kind of the expected instruction in an architecture that has no condition codes (mips has compare with 0 but essentially the same 6) - compare works well in an out of order pipe If I was going to change anything I'd add compare eq/ne with an immediate